Untergang in 2016

May 30, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Since I saw the German movie, “Untergang” (one of the best movies on Hitler; maybe the best) about the final period of Adolf Hitler’s reign, I liked the term (it means “downfall,”). I have used it several times in my column. I believe there is not going to be any snap poll. President Ramotar will not allow the PPP leadership to push him into an early election.
He will see out his five years and if there is a general election in 2016, there will be a new presidential candidate. Mr. Ramotar knows this, so it gives him encouragement to stay until 2016. In 2016, we will see the PPP’s untergang. All the signs are there. I refer readers to a recent column in which I explained that the PPP seems hopeless to stop the rut that has enveloped it long incumbency.
It is this rut that will undo it if there is a national poll in 2016. We can start with Clement Rohee. There is absolutely no other party leader in the world who makes so many mistakes on such a frequent basis. Mr. Rohee puts the PPP’s inadequacies, depravities, inanities and stupidities on display every week with his awkward and awful press conferences.
It is no exaggeration to say that since he became General-Secretary, Mr. Rohee has not sailed smoothly at any of those press meetings. And the media knows what a stumbling politician he is, so they continue to bait him. The result is predictable. The thousands of young Indian minds aren’t going to be impressed when they see Rohee’s weekly performance.
You just can predict this man’s behaviour. The pattern is so obvious. He pontificates on an issue and when the reporter presses him to elaborate he cannot, so he finds a way out through two avenues – gets annoyed or refuses to answer.
So he says the opposition is in bed with the drug traffickers, but when asked to divulge his proof, he says he is not discussing it further. And this attitude goes on and on and on. When faced with a difficult question by a reporter, he yelled, “You are speaking to the General-Secretary of the PPP.” He didn’t answer the question.
The latest episode is the Marriott Hotel construction. He heaped praise on the investment but when asked for details, the two hackneyed methods were predictable. He became hostile and the usual words came out his mouth – “I am not dealing with that.”
For those who are doing research on politics in Guyana, I suggest you research every press briefing Rohee hosted since he took over as the PPP’s leader.
Last year when speaking to the attendants of Cheddi Jagan’s death anniversary, Rohee said the PPP knows the mistakes it made that cost it the parliamentary majority and will not repeat those mistakes again when election time comes around. Here is the thing. The PPP is making those mistakes in Rohee himself. And there isn’t a thing the PPP can do about it. No one in the PPP has the power to tell Rohee that he is making the PPP look bad with his bad mouthing off at his press conferences.
A young letter-writer took Rohee to task and you wonder what went through the mind of young Indians when they see such nonsense from the leader of the party that is asking for their votes. The young lady said that she found Mr. Rohee’s answer horrible because when asked for his opinion of what happened to 15-year-old Alex Griffith, who was shot in his mouth by a police officer, Rohee said he didn’t know about this matter. The woman said that the same Rohee has in-depth knowledge of certain international events like the kidnapping of the school girls in Nigeria.
From now until the 2016 national poll, this will be Rohee. From now until 2016, there will be many more incidents similar and identical to what happened to AFC parliamentarian, Valerie Garrido-Lowe. She was denied a seat on an interior flight which as she stated was on the orders of a PPP functionary.
Ms. Lowe gave a long interview to the media on the victimization and harassment she received at the hand of this PPP apparatchik. What makes anyone think that in the very week of the election in 2016, these stupid, depraved, inane, sickening acts of dictatorial power will not occur?
They will happen because dictatorships are prisoners of their own power lust. Rohee didn’t state what the mistakes were that made the PPP lose its parliamentary majority in 2011. But it needs not be spelt out, because the Guyanese people know the answer – naked power has long destroyed the PPP.

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