Macbethian waltz on necrophiliac waters: The Rohee candidacy

Jan 17, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

On reading that Clement Rohee was interested in contesting the PPP’s nomination, I penned a column with a long title (“Kafkaesque, Mephistophelean, Faustian theatre of the absurd.”) in which I examined the repugnant but facetious reality of a Rohee candidacy. I chose that pedantic title so that Rohee could have gone and looked it up.
No doubt, he did. I assumed that because the little dictators read this column before their own sycophantic columnists like Prem Misir etc. I don’t know why since I am an intellectual pigmy in their eyes.
I deliberately chose another sesquipedalian caption here so Rohee could go again and search for these words. I hope he connects the definitions to my analysis that is offered below on his announced candidacy. I first met Rohee when I was a sixteen year old youth who knocked around the PPP.
Since that time, as both an opposition figure and as a Minister for 19 years, I think Rohee has learnt nothing about life, politics and power. I doubt he would ever be president or even the leader of the PPP. I doubt any PPP supporter would choose Rohee in front of the other contenders. And for one, very simple reason – Rohee does not know how to practice politics.
A footnote is in order. I do agree that most PPP leaders are not different from Rohee but there are a few who have avoided the permanent pitfalls of Rohee.
Everything is wrong with this gentleman. Let us start with his announcement last year. He told the media that he is eligible for the presidency because after all “goat ain’t bite meh,” opening up himself to ridicule. Of course, the goats bit Rohee a long, long time ago.
Now last week, he announced his intention again and made a mockery of himself by displaying shocking mediocrity, obliviousness to what his own government said about him in his visa scandal and avoiding the truth like the plague. Rohee asked journalist Dennis Chabrol to submit the questions one day before. Chabrol complied.
I told Chabrol that he never should have done that. And the Guyana Press Association should issue a condemnation of this type of insecurity by Rohee.
Chabrol told me that even though Rohee had his written questions one day in advance Rohee didn’t answer a majority of the inquiries. He can’t. Because his politics is weak, lacks finesse and devoid of intellectual fiber. Rohee responded to Chabrol’s curiosity on his visa imbroglio with the American Embassy and avoided the facts. In the process, he made himself look poor in the eyes of the Guyanese society.
First, he indicated to his press conference that he doesn’t know why his visa was denied and it probably had to do with US security measures after the 9/11 terrorist act in new York and that it was never revoked.
GINA on March 24, 2004 reported that Mr. Rohee’s visa was revoked and that he was given the reason. All recalled visa holders are told why. It is on the reason stated that they can mount an appeal.
Secondly, Mr. Rohee’s imagination is larger than the combined oceans of the world. He surmised that against the background of 9/11, the US had stepped up security and he may have been targeted because of flag-burning episodes outside the US Embassy.
Mr. Rohee never burned any flag outside the US Embassy. Such protests were centered on the Vietnam War which ended in 1974.
It is logical to assume that if Rohee did that, he would have been in company with many top PPP leaders who are in governmental jobs at the moment. The only PPP leader who could not get a visa is Rohee.
We can go through the list of all of the colleagues of Mr. Rohee in the PPP’s hierarchy and not one of them has been denied a visa. Ronald Gajraj does not fall into this classification. Add to this the year in question.
The 9/11 attack occurred in 2001. Rohee’s visa fiasco occurred in 2004. The Americans waited two years before they zeroed in on Rohee and only Rohee from Guyana. This writer knows why Rohee had visa problems. And I say most unambiguously, it had nothing to do with 9/11. As the election campaign heats up, I will tell the Guyanese people why.
Rohee intoned that he will abide by the decision of his party leaders. I thought Rohee by now would accept that it is the party members that should choose its presidential candidate. But then again, molded by the great fascist, Janet Jagan, what do you expect of Rohee.

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