There is something about Rohee that Guyanese need to know about

Nov 27, 2012 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I have never been inside the debating chambers of Parliament, meaning where the MPs make laws. My first visit was last Thursday at the invitation of Michael Carrington of the AFC. I know one thing about what I heard; Gail Teixeira was talking a mouthful of asininities that reduced this country to the worst immoral banana republic since the 20th century began.
This is what she told the Speaker of the National Assembly. The House cannot sanction Mr. Rohee because Mr. Rohee committed no violation inside of, or misbehaved in Parliament. She urged the Speaker that Rohee cannot be punished by the House for something that he did outside of the House.
This is twisted logic of the worst kind. Only Gail Teixeira on Planet Earth does not know of a universal law, a fundamental ethic of life called “conduct unbecoming.”
“Conduct unbecoming” applies to every sphere of life. A school is not going to keep a teacher who gets into incessant brawls in hostels for prostitutes. A church is not going to retain a priest who gets frequently drunk in rum shops. A media house is not going to continue with a journalist that an embassy claims is into selling bogus visas.
A retail shop is not going to tolerate a manager that parties every night with teenage girls. Only Gail Texieira doesn’t understand that by association the reputation of an establishment can be tarnished.
This writer had to intervene with Republic Bank when one of his students was called to face a disciplinary hearing over a quarrel at UG. One of the persons hearing the complaint was the wife of PNC Chairman, Basil Williams. I made the point to the bank’s management that the incident had nothing to do with Republic Bank and was a disagreement between two UG students.
The bank was adamant that since one of the students was an employee of the financial house, unbecoming conduct could tarnish the image of the commercial institution. They were inflexible with this position. At the time, Attorney Ashton Chase was the bank’s board chairman. He accepted management’s position and rejected my request to intervene. The student was disciplined.
Only Gail Teixeira doesn’t know that Clement Rohee is a Minister in the Cabinet of the Government of Guyana and that his action in or out of Parliament can bring both the National Assembly and Guyana into disrepute. So let us reason it out.
John Jones the Minister of Infrastructure who is also an MP goes to Lethem, cusses out Amerindian people, calls them all sort of racist names, threatens to invade Brazilians, cusses them out in racist terms.
According to Gail Teixeira the National Assembly cannot entertain a motion to punish him for conduct unbecoming because the nasty behaviour took place outside of the National Assembly. This is not only nonsense but elephant dung. John Jones in committing those egregious acts as Minister and MP damaged the image of both the Cabinet and Parliament and should face disciplinary investigation.
Clement Rohee’s huge faults go way back to 2005 when as Minister of Foreign Trade the US Government withdrew for six months both types of visas (non-immigrant and diplomatic) he possessed at the time.. Mr. Rohee up to this day, due to the character faults of his then President, Bharrat Jagdeo, has refused to explain what he was being investigated for.
In a brief comment two years ago, he opined that he thought that the Americans acted against him because in the early seventies he had picketed the Embassy over the US involvement in the Vietnam War.
This is asininity that has no parallel in the history of the world. All the major PPP and WPA leaders in the early seventies held anti-war demonstrations outside the Main Street Embassy of the US. None of them in the 21st Century had their visas suspended. Last week, some PPP leaders picketed the US Embassy over the American support for Israel in the bombing of the Gaza.
They will not lose their visas and Rohee didn’t lose his visas in 2005 because of any picketing exercise in the early seventies. Mr. Rohee has got away with political murder of the worst kind in a banana republic of the worst kind. He should have been dismissed over the visa incident.
Since that time, Mr. Rohee has moved from one indiscretion to another reminding us of “Killaman.” Rohee, “Killaman” and Gail Teixeira have no place in politics in the 21st century. It is time for the combined opposition to do what Guyanese expect them to do because voters gave them a parliamentary majority.

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