Rohee, Benn, Mc Coy and all that jazz

Mar 06, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There is a saying that most of us who speak English would have uttered at some point in our lives a saying that goes like this; “That is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank.” It simply means that you are placing a hopelessly irredeemable person in a job that calls for saintly qualities.
Clement Rohee is not the Minister of Sports; he is not the Minister of Human Services; he is not the Minister of Trade. These offices hardly exercise any kind of authority over the police force.
Clement Rohee has the Cabinet portfolio that involves the law. He is the subject Minister for the police force. Yet this very Minister, before he was assigned the portfolio of interfacing with the Guyana Police Force, was embroiled in a controversy in which the US Embassy refused to permit him the possession of any type of visa, be it non-immigrant or diplomatic.
At the time he was the Minister of International Trade and was prohibited from traveling to the US or passing through countries that require a US visa because he couldn’t get an American permit. This scandal (my interpretation) lasted for six months.
This same Rohee has just read the riot act to some senior police officers for divulging information to the press. Rohee told the officers that in the UK there is a law that exists that prevents police officers from speaking to the media (he didn’t name the law; I doubt he could) and that police officers could be arrested and charged for speaking to the press without the permission of the Police Commissioner.
Rohee forgot to tell the senior ranks who were listening to him that not even in Arab dictatorships would he, Rohee, have lasted in his job if he was denied an American visa for reasons that are questionable. The fact is that in no country in the world would Rohee have survived in his Cabinet career.
So did Rohee do something terribly wrong? Rohee’s silence makes you feel that he has committed an unpardonable sin. The man just would not speak on this seven-year-old controversy.
During the election campaign, there were weekly public meetings held at the Stabroek Market Square by a group named Committee for Human Rights and Free and Fair Elections. I was a featured speaker each week and had indicated that I would publicly disclose why the visa was denied. The legal advice I got was to desist from such a disclosure because the US Embassy will not send its officers to testify in court if I was sued.
So the story of the banana republic continues in Guyana. Don’t forget in the banana republic the circus never stops. Kwame McCoy sits on the Rights of the Child Commission. The circus which started under Bharrat Jagdeo’s watch is still performing. Remember the chief legal officer in the Government of Guyana, then Attorney-General, Charles Ramson, thought the media was referring to him when the press was investigating Leslie Ramsammy’s link with Roger Khan.
Ramson told the media; “I hear this thing in the press about a Minister doing illegal things and I thought it was me they referring to because I is a man who like do these kinds of things.”
A UG lecturer is accused of sexual misconduct over a ten-year period and is placed before an investigation panel. Then while the probe into his conduct was going on, President Jagdeo appointed him as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting.
Of course the biggest clown in the circus was the Champion of the Earth. So the circus goes on, the latest act being Robeson Benn, the man whom the satirist at Dem Boys Seh refers to as “Bruk Up Benn,” because he demolished illegal encumbrances.
Let’s quote Benn in the KN yesterday so we can get a peep into how the clowns perform. “There has been no other search and rescue or recovery mission in this country or any part of South America which has employed the level of technology, I am not aware of any in the United States too.”
Well there you have it. In Guyana, we have top class technology to search for missing planes and boats, and we have mounted an operation in 2008 that involved the use of technology that not even giants like Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and according to Benn, in the US have done.
One wonders if we have matching technology in other areas like in the police forensic lab, in the Georgetown Hospital and at the University of Guyana. Thanks to “Bruk Up Benn” for the phenomenal information on Guyana’s development.

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