Really, in which ways am I contaminated and have deteriorated?

Mar 29, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Well known letter writer in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News and a critic of the PPP’s dictatorial governance, GHK Lall, has made some pyrotechnical accusations against me. Inflammatory insinuations against me is territory I live with, will have to live it, and will never be able to shirk off given human nature.
Writing in the March 26 edition of the letter pages of the Stabroek News under the caption “Exercise in poor judgement,” Mr. Lall had this to say about of my character; “I heard from reliable sources a few years back about the funding for Mr. Kissoon’s house…he should have known better…He not only compromised himself, he contaminated himself too…Yes he has deteriorated.”
Is Mr. Lall about to board the PPP’s campaign? Since construction began on my house in 2006, the issue of the funding came up when Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar told their audience in 2006 at Babu Jaan that businessmen helped to build my home. Donald Ramotar repeated that in a letter in the Kaieteur News.
Around the same time, the head of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Mr. Khurshid Sattaur, referred to my home as a mansion in a published letter to the Kaieteur News. Since 2006, I have discussed the funding of my house and the class category it fell into several times in my columns and in letters to the press. Once more I will discuss it. I implore Mr. Lall to show me in what ways I have deteriorated.
My home was built with money earned over decades of hard public service work by me and my wife. Three friends who are not questionable business people, but humans with immense integrity who have no political connections and are not people surrounded by controversy, gave me assistance to the tune of three million dollars.
They were and are my friends. The mutual fondness and respect live on. I know of nothing in their lives that they have done that have contaminated me and caused me to deteriorate in the quality of my character.
These are not rich and wealthy Guyanese who are rapacious people that when you take money from them, you are compromised. A fourth person, a professional, insisted that I take $50,000 because he went ahead of me when we were friends and earned dozens of millions while I remained a poor academic. Sadly for me, he became enticed with power and our friendship died, died definitely.
Where did GHK Lall get his information from? Who compromised me? Who contaminated me? Since I moved in my home in 2007, in what ways have I deteriorated. Here are some of the facts since 2007 when this upper-working class house was completed. And yes, my home is either lower middle class or upper working class but definitely not middle class.
In 2010, the whole of Guyana and the Diaspora knew that there was a big disagreement between me and the Kaieteur News and the columns were stopped at the time. There have been two attempts on my life. My wife was harassed out of her public sector job in 2011 just before the national elections. In 2012 my UG contract was terminated five months before its expiration.
I have participated in almost every conceivable picket or demonstration on human rights violations since 2007 when I moved in to the house that according to Mr. GHK Lall, I compromised my character over. I was one of the organizers of the Crum-Ewing days of vigil. I have castigated members of corporate Guyana that have mistreated their workers or the public. Corporate Guyana is morally questionable.
If some of these huge business places have not been visited by pen then there may be reasons, but not because they gave me money to build my home, because that is not true. I don’t know the billionaires in corporate Guyana. I don’t want to know such people. Our worlds will never meet. The interior of my house is definitively upper working class. I drive a car bought in 2000 with duty free status because of my employment at UG.
Finally, my world has been shaped by people who didn’t chase after material things and I will always live like these people. The list includes three of the founders of the Working People’s Alliance – Brian Rodway, Eusi Kwayana and Tacuma Ogunseye; Catholic nun Sister Mary Noel Menezes; Catholic priest, Father Andrew Morrison; Jehovah Witness preacher Fred Phillips, formerly head of the Georgetown Club in the seventies.
I built my home with my own money. I didn’t take hush money from business people. I am the same independent person as when I first saw the mistreatment of my father fifty years ago. I have no interest in wealth and power.

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