Charles Ramson rewinds the tape, Nandlall fast forwards it

Nov 07, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The Walter Rodney Commission has hilarious moments. Certainly one of them was when Robert Gates testified. I like the part when Gates pointed to the role of a police officer at the time of Walter’s assassination when in that very period the police officer was a school boy in short pants.
Gates opened the gates to laughter at the Commission. But Ramson used a cement ransom to ram down the jokes so fast that we couldn’t laugh at all of them.
What a circus the Walter Rodney Commission has turned out to be. Do the Commissioners have any self-respect? My sources told me that the following PPP witnesses are to appear; Indra Chandarpal, Clinton Collymore, Gail Teixeira, Clement Rohee, Parbudyal Sattan, among others.
The true intention behind the Rodney Commission is now being slowly revealed. For the umpteenth time, I died when I picked up the newspapers. It happened so many times that I thought I would be spared in the future. But no! The Ramson thing was too much for me. When I read that Charles Ramson had given testimony at the Commission, the paper dropped out of my hand, and I died.
Come on man! Be serious. Not Charles Ramson, the former Attorney-General and Everest Cricket Club member. No! My eyes weren’t seeing correctly. Why would Ramson go and testify against PNC Government wrongdoing at a time when another Attorney-General is being accused of doing illegal things.
It was Ramson, when he was Attorney-General, who held a press conference and told reporters that when he heard; “Ya’ll talking bout a minista dat does illegal tings. I thought ya’ll de talking ‘bout me, because I is a maan that like do illegal tings.” Sensibly enough, the Stabroek News carried Ramson’s words and today those words have gone in the history books.
On the witness stand, Ramson testified to the authoritarian nature of PNC’s rule (it was at that part when the newspaper dropped out of my hand and I died). He spoke of beatings, surveillance and other forms of tyranny. Fast forward the tape. “Sash” Sawh’s brother-in-law has gone on record as saying there is a cover-up in Sawh’s murder, meaning that the State had a hand in his death. Now, one doesn’t know if Ramson read that, but it was in the newspaper that the gentleman declared that he has asked the Canadian Government to intervene.
Maybe Ramson wasn’t in the country and still doesn’t know that opposition critic Ronald Waddell was murdered in a fashion similar to Rodney, only this time the PNC were not the plotters. Many, including this columnist, believe that like Rodney, powerful politicians gave the order to kill Waddell. Has Ramson heard about the Lindo Creek massacre?
One wonders if Ramson knows that the Canadian Refuge Board has granted asylum on two occasions to applicants whose testimony were based on accusations of PPP- sanctioned violence against them. In one instance, a 14-year-old girl whose last name is that of a famous opposition politician, said in her submission that she was raped by a businessman who is a friend of a PPP big wig who was driving in the compound at the time of the assault.
Later that day gunmen visited her mother with threats. The Refugee Board ruled that her life would be in danger should she return to Guyana. In the other story, a former GUYOIL computer specialist was allowed to remain in Canada after he detailed the violence that he and his wife endured after they were forcefully taken to Celina Atlantic Resort. His crime was that he refused to hack into the computers of critics of the Government. In his testimony, he said that the goat minister was present when his wife was undressed by gunmen.
These are all horror moments that occurred during the reign of the PPP Government, a regime Ramson served as Attorney-General and still serves. If you should count up incidents of thuggery, murder, employment dismissal, racial victimization, depraved policies, judicial tampering, among a mountain of evil behaviour between the PNC Government 1968-1992 and the PPP Government 1957 -1964 and 1992 to the present, the PPP balance sheet outstrips the PNC’s by millions.
While Ramson was rewinding the tape for us to listen to Forbes Burnham’s sins, another Attorney-General, Anil Nandlall, was fast forwarding it so we could hear about the crimes of the PPP. What Basil Williams should ask the remaining PPP witnesses is who killed Constable Henry at the Corentyne toll gate in 1974. And who consistently burned down sugar estates in the seventies and eighties.
The Rodney Commission has indeed become a big circus.

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