Nagamootoo exposed yet again

Feb 10, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Last Sunday, the Chronicle published an article informing the public that the Alliance for Change (AFC’s) Moses Nagamootoo voted in support of the Former President’s Benefits and Allowance Bill 2009 when it was passed in the National Assembly, and revealed that Mr. Moses Nagamootoo lied to the nation and National Assembly two weeks ago again and during the election campaign of 2011, when he stated he never supported the Bill.
The article also published that Nagamootoo, an ardent critic of NICIL, never disclosed that he received nearly seven million dollars (7M dollars) in legal fees as a lawyer for NICIL
Naturally, this public disclosure has embarrassed Mr. Nagamootoo. In a faint attempt to avoid humiliation, Mr. Nagamootoo responded in letters which were published in the press.
He argued that he voted in support of the Former President’s Benefit and Allowance Bill because he was in the PPP and had to follow the Party’s line. This is a most comical response. The public is well aware that Mr. Nagamootoo frequently proudly asserts that when he was in the PPP he broke ranks and refused to carry the party line on many issues.
Why did he not break rank on this issue? He wanted to be the Presidential candidate of the PPP at the time and, therefore, would have been a beneficiary of the Bill. No amount of confulling by Mr. Nagamootoo will fool the public any longer.
The truth is Mr. Nagamootoo cannot eat his cake and have it. I any event he masquerades as a revolutionary and a political moralist. He holds himself out to be a surrogate of Cheddi Jagan, Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara.
Revolutionary morality dictates that one must stick to principles at all costs and principles must not be sacrificed at the alter of political expediency. Mr. Nagamootoo’s explanation, therefore, is devoid of any credibility and runs hollow.
In relation to NICIL, Mr. Nagamootoo pleads his constitutional right to work. Of course, everyone enjoys that constitutional right. That is hardly not the point. Mr. Nagamootoo cannot run around the country alleging corruption, cronyism and illegality against NICIL without disclosing that as a lawyer for NICIL he has received millions of dollars.
The public is entitled to this information to determine whether he himself is part of the corruption, cronyism and illegalities which he alleges against NICIL.
Also, he needs to explain why he accepts legal work from NICIL in the first place knowing of all the wrongs taking place at NICIL. If he did not know it at the beginning, why did he continue to work as their lawyer and accept payments when these wrongs came to his knowledge? In-fact, according to him he still works with NICIL doing an arbitration which is still ongoing. Certainly it is not party line that keeps him there.
In his desperate attempt to defend himself Nagamootoo dug himself into a deeper hole.
Shyam Doodnauth

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