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HUGHES NEEDS TO RETHINK HIMSELF
Dear Editor
After his failed ultimatum in 2012 for President Donald Ramotar to fire Guyana’s Home Affairs Minister because of the unnecessary deaths of three Lindeners how much wiser has AFC’s Nigel Hughes become?
Unsatisfied with the Linden Commission of Inquiry’s (COI) financial award Mr. Hughes would like additional taxpayers’ money to be paid to Lindeners. Wouldn’t this, in effect, be compensating violence as a laudable alternative to democratic dissent?
Why is the AFC unable to display a similar duty in advocating financial relief to all those affected by the Agricola violence considering the many Indians who came in for harassment?
Demanding preferential compensation for Linden victims while treating Agricola victims as homeless street orphans cannot be either wise or fair. It can only backfire in a snap election.
Mr. Hughes is best and fully able to reconcile unaddressed racial imbalances especially when most of the AFC seats came from Indian voters in 2011 who subsequently also democratically constituted him as their AFC chairman.
Historically under attack for voting “apaan jhaat” Indian voters have again changed from sympathy to Dr Walter Rodney by this time preferentially voting for another black Guyanese i.e. Mr. Nigel Hughes but now to govern Guyana. Is the much maligned “apaan jhaat” preferences of Indians witnessing dramatic makeover?
Even Mr. Raphael Trotman’s election as Speaker is by all means owed significantly to Mr. Moses Nagamootoo’s solitary decision to withdraw as the original candidate for the job. His celebrated crossover from the PPP was also the most critical factor which allowed the AFC in 2011 to get seven seats compared to 2006.
Whether the AFC continues to neglect some of its critical constituents remains to be seen after due consideration that it was a new third force pledged to heal the racial divisions in Guyana. AFC critics are sure to ask what Mr. Moses Nagamootoo’s defection has done for those followed him .
It’s no secret that Indian voters replacing by a bigger margin those absconding black voters who predictably returned home to the PNC sensing victory with Mr. David Granger’s election as PNC leader . So far what achievements can Mr. Nagamootoo himself point to in his decision to submerge himself within the AFC after his crossover?
Most assuredly the PPP/C lost its majority not only because many blacks abandoned them but many of its Indian supporters were in open rebellion against an unresponsive and decaying PPP party machinery.
Insensitivity to a tradition against corruption, shoddy workmanship, lavish lifestyles and the neglect which President Bharrat Jagdeo’s policies followed in taking them for granted took a heavy toll in the 2011 elections.
Sultan Mohamed
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