If Ogunseye’s is guilty of incitement, then what is President Jagdeo guilty of?

Apr 21, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is mind boggling that the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) and its head Bishop Juan Edghill would seek to investigate ACDA’s Executive Member Tacuma Ogunseye for racial insurrection, when the Head of State of this Nation Bharrat Jagdeo back in March publicly made statements at Babu John that clearly created some amount of tension and unease among Guyanese of various ethnic standing.
On Sunday 4th March 2011 Bharrat Jagdeo while speaking at a commemorative ceremony for Cheddi Jagan’s Death Anniversary, carried on his usual disgraceful utterances with inflammatory and untruthful statements. It is clear that such statements could create serious implications for peace, race relations and national security, in an Election Year. The President’s attack on the PNCR’s Presidential Candidate David Granger was unwarranted and provocative.
Mr. Editor it is obvious to me and many in our society that any statement that could create implications for peace, race relations and national security, is incitement. So I ask where the ERC was when those statements were made. Was that body/organisation on vacation? Or is the statement, “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” no longer applicable to Guyanese society?
The PNCR has some time ago established and noted that the ERC is an unconstitutional body, and possibly working directly for the cause of the PPP/C and not the nation as a whole, but I do believe that this Jagdeo/Babu John situation was the ideal one for Juan Edghill and the ERC to break itself from that stigma; dare I say that the PNCR was correct in its suggestions that the ERC is working in the interest of Jagdeo and the PPP? Or is it that Juan Edghill and the ERC have joined the many Guyanese who fear victimization by this current regime? If so, then that really is a shame for a state that should be a democratic one.
Mr. Editor, I also note Mr. Lancelot Hughes’ letter (Kaieteur News) and I respectfully say that there is nothing 19th Century about Mr. Ogunseye’s thinking, but however, there is a whole lot of 19th Century thinking in the PPP/C Government’s rein. The Guyanese have suffered for almost two decades under this dictatorial regime and the last decade especially those years under a Jagdeo Administration have been the worst, it is against this backdrop I say that I feel Mr. Ogunseye’s frustration.
It is certainly time for the ERC to launch a probe into the provocative and unwarranted statements made by our Common Place head of State last March and engage Mr. Jagdeo on those statements. I end by saying what my grandmother always said, “What’s good for the goose, should also be good for the gander”.
Kimberly Ann Bailey

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