Who has Kamla’s files? Who has the PPP’s files?

Mar 30, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The sacking of a Trinidadian Minister by his Prime Minister over his verbally threatening behaviour towards a flight attendant in the air has whetted the appetite of the Guyanese people. Then the Kaieteur News made the event a topic in almost every household in Guyana.
KN informed Guyanese that the Trinidadian Prime Minister in less than four years of her tenure has removed eleven ministers, four of whom were for specific allegations made against them, the findings of which sealed their fate.
How has the Trinidadian PM survived after dismissing so many of her Cabinet colleagues?
The fundamental reason within the context of global politics is that she has no skeletons from which she could be blackmailed or threatened. In other words, no one has Kamla’s files because she has none.
This is in stark contrast with Guyana since Mr. Jagdeo became President. This is where Cheddi Jagan was a priceless figure in the PPP. None of Jagan’s underlings had any file that could have been used against him. No one could have deterred Jagan because of something one would have had on him. From 1999, state and society in Guyana became corrupt and criminalized and all of those in the corridors of power were consumed.
What happened in the PPP, then, was that John the leader, couldn’t tell Mary, his deputy, that she will be fired. Mary would read the Riot Act to him because Mary had his files. And this pattern has permeated every level of the PPP leadership since 1999. Ministers after Ministers had secrets for each other.
High state officials like security officers had secrets for many top leaders in the corridors of power. Henry Greene had to be made Commissioner and could not have been fired because he possessed many bizarre details that would have embarrassed the top dogs in the war room. For example, Greene took to his grave his book of tales about Roger Khan and who knew Khan and who Khan knew.
One top dog publicly said he never met Khan, yet a Portuguese businessman saw Khan coming out of the State-owned mansion. That businessman lives in Miami. Someone very close to the late Fazil Ali, then President of the Rice Producers Association and who holds an important State job, told me that there is a house in Pradoville One that was built with corrupt money and that both husband and wife were more corrupt than the monsters in Greek mythology that eat people.
Money was taken from OMAI (the gold company) by the husband, while the wife did her thing too, and the PPP leadership knows this. Here is where files come in. The wife in this Pradoville house resented her demotion and the husband sought to berate the champion. The champion simply said to the husband; “I have your wife’s files.”
That was the end of the husband’s threats to the champion.
There are literally thousands of incidents like these inside the PPP; no one can end up like the eleven ministers Kamla removed because those who are going to do the firing have skeletons in their cupboards that are as gargantuan as dinosaurs’ skeletons. Should that happen, files would be strewn all over Guyana.
Here are some skeletons. (1) Foreign bank accounts. Many of the top dogs know that their colleagues have foreign bank accounts. None of Kamla’s ministers can threaten her with exposure of corrupt money stashed outside of Trinidad because Kamla has none.
(2) Wild nocturnal parties at the Pegasus, in the uncivilized hours where young girls clubbed till daybreak, with many top dogs being entertained by Roger Khan. Oh yes, there can be no denial that the top dogs knew Roger Khan very well.
(3) Robert Simels, Roger Khan’s lawyer, publicly revealed that when Khan was in Suriname he made 35 calls to a judge codenamed “The Oracle”.
Who is “The Oracle?” The top dogs know who “The Oracle” is, so they have his files. “The Oracle” knows that the top dogs used to meet with Khan so he has his files of the top dogs. Of course, we in the media know who “The Oracle” is. I can tell you I am no admirer of “The Oracle.” Hope you can pick up the clue or read between the lines.
(4) Corruption. This is the Mount Vesuvius in the corridors of power. But it will never erupt.
You scratch my back; I scratch yours. Who is going to be fired in Kamla style? Who in the corridors of power dare damage the credibility of one of their colleagues through bad-mouthing when the skeletons are so large? No one will dare risk it. No Minister will ever be fired from the PPP Cabinet.

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