Nagamootoo’s skeletons

Sep 16, 2014 Editorial, Features / Columnists

One should not read too much into the promised expose of Moses Nagamootoo’s skeletons by the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee. That is the nature of politics and by now all and sundry know that desperate times require desperate measures.
So there! Nagamootoo, a former PPP strongman, was unceremoniously booted out of the party in which he (like his biblical namesake) played a seminal role in the struggle for democracy during its years in the political wilderness. It is to be expected that as an opposition politician, he would have had knowledge of many of the acts peculiar to that phase of the country’s political evolution. Without belabouring the point Moses would have been privy to the plots and sub-plots which might not have borne rigorous legal scrutiny.
Be that as it may, he would not have been the only Jagan sycophant to have committed acts which were all part of the struggle to remove an ‘undemocratic regime’. The PPP has variously been accused of engaging in economic sabotage principally the burning of sugar cane in an effort to achieve its objectives. If there was ever a case of cutting ones nose to spite one’s face those actions were excellent examples, bearing in mind that the sugar belt consisted mainly of PPP supporters.
But the truth is that the PPP was mobilized and could subsidise its supporters due in part to aid coming from the Soviet Union.
So what can Rohee say about his erstwhile colleague that would negatively impact the Nagamootoo votes from thousands of his admirers across the political landscape? Will we be regaled with tales that the PPP has knowledge that he committed acts that are worse than those by which its present crop of leaders are guilty of?
If yes, what was the reason for keeping these secrets all through the years? There are more questions than Mr. Rohee can possibly answer because if he makes allegations of criminal behaviour since his comrade’s expulsion, then he will have to explain what action as Minister of Home Affairs he took to ensure that Moses faced the full brunt of the law.
Notwithstanding the anticipated rhetoric, to suddenly wake up to the realization that a serious challenge suddenly confronts the mindset of some divine right to govern, is enough to send even the hardiest of souls into a state of panic. Basically what the Guyanese electorate is witnessing at this juncture is a situation of mindless confusion characterized by statements from all who would like to impress the populace with their contradictory views.
Furthermore, the departure of the party’s in house agent who could have guaranteed similar outcomes to elections prior to 2011 has thrown the proverbial cat among the pigeons.
Voters would want to know what party sanctions were recommended if Moses Nagamootoo broke any ethical rules of conduct while still a member of the PPP. If sanctions were recommended, and were not applied people would want to know the reason why this was so. On the other hand Mr. Nagamootoo does not have to disprove anything coming from Robb Street.
If anything he is in a better position to cause grievous harm to the reputation of individuals who will be on the hustings. The more prescient among us would have recognized that this new development may be a ploy to get Moses Nagamootoo to descend into the gutter reminiscent of the vulgarity displayed by PPP principals during the last general and regional elections campaign.
When all is said and done Moses Nagamootoo paid his dues. He did not defect from the party which nurtured him and which he served faithfully, in the manner of the political chameleons who have now found a home there.
His ouster was among the first signs of an encroaching strategy to rid the party of the more principled actors and a significant part of a wider plan to co-opt with the lure of untold wealth or compromise those of less resilience and strength of character.
The die is cast that and the Guyanese people await the startling revelations as promised by the General Secretary, who must also be prepared to provide definitive answers to the many questions sure to come his way.

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