The worst infamy ever uttered in Guyana’s parliamentary history

Oct 28, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Mark Benschop has a tape of an interview with Donald Ramotar a year before he became the President. Benschop sought Ramotar’s views on a traffic incident involving Ramotar’s son, Alexei, and my nephew. In the conversation, Ramotar said he believes in moral politics.
Ramotar did not elaborate, but with some of the leftovers from the Jagdeo dispensation that he has inherited, Mr. Ramotar needs to be pressed on what he understands by moral politics. It is for the media to ask Benschop to make the tape available. This columnist heard it.
Against his background of moral politics, one wonders if Ramotar is going to retain Neil Kumar as a PPP Parliamentarian and as the country’s (my God, the country not a part of) director of sports.
During the exchange on Agricola, Kumar uttered some words against Moses Nagamootoo that showed that everything is wrong about the PPP, that the PPP is an organization beyond redemption, and that the longer the PPP remains in charge of the administration of Guyana, this country is going to reach quickly the bottom of a chasm.
It is not possible at all to repeat here what Kumar said. I first knew about his utterances when one of the members of the People’s Parliament told me she heard it for herself as she was part of a delegation to hand in to Speaker Trotman, the petition of the People’s Parliament.
Then I stood numb and cold when I saw on television the words coming out of the mouth of Kumar. I couldn’t understand why one of the private television newscasts broadcast it. I wanted to call up the editor, but then I figured that it was the right thing the newscast did since such a politician and his party should be exposed. I guess the editor wanted Guyanese to see what characterless traits some of the people in the PPP have.
In a column earlier this year, I called on President Ramotar to dismiss Kumar from his National Sports Director job when, in defending the policy of not opening up Guyana’s three public swimming pools to the Guyanese people, he said that you just can’t let people into a pool to swim because you have to bathe before you enter the pool.
It was the most idiotic thing to say and my column was titled, “The most asinine politician in the world.” Now Kumar has gone beyond that. No country in the entire world except Guyana, would allow Kumar to get away with those remarks against Nagamootoo.
Every day as I live in my country and I watch the depravities, immoralities, tyrannies, debaucheries that characterize the exercise of power by the PPP, I wish that I was old enough to see what the PPP rule was like in the early sixties when Cheddi Jagan described his party s a school of angels tormented by the politics of Forbes Burnham and Peter D’Aguiar.
It was a flotilla of deceptions, deceits and fiction. The real culprit in the sixties was the PPP.
Look at the real culprits today; the very PPP who accused others of being demons in the sixties. These are the people that go to bottom-house meetings and tell their rural constituencies what the PNC did to them in the past, what the PNC is doing now, and if they vote for the opposition what the PNC will do to them.
I lived under the PNC in government, I live under the PNC in opposition now and I say most unambiguously, that no PNC parliamentarian in the sixties and in the present context would ever say the things that came out of Kumar’s mouth last Monday.
No one from Peter D’Aguiar’s party would have descended to that base level. It had to be someone from the PPP.
The leadership of the PPP will laugh along with Kumar when they discuss Kumar’s infamy. Kumar will be praised for his sickening theatrics. This is what Independence has produced. Over sixty percent of Jamaicans in a survey said that Jamaica should have remained under British rule. If a similar poll is done here, perhaps the percentage will be close to the 100 percent mark.
No colonial official would have told our local anti-colonial politician what Kumar said to Nagamootoo, and in all places, Parliament.
I honestly believe in my mind that the longer the PPP stays in power, the deeper the mental rut will get and Guyana will endure horrible consequences. There seems to be an evil aura that has come over the PPP. It has taken over its collective leadership and it will destroy the PPP sooner than later.

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