This monstrosity named NICIL

Dec 25, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Permit me to share a few more thoughts on the issue and presence of NICIL.
There it is: huge, amorphous, ethereal. At times, there is wondering as to whether it is a troubling aberration of besieged imagination. But NICIL is very real. In some ways, it is the equivalent of a holding company standing at the apex of a pyramid overlooking a portfolio of companies and engagements; a portfolio of shadows and cobwebbed beings.
If it did not have some distinctive features, I would be tempted to identify it as a political Ponzi scheme; or as a political washing machine of a particular kind.
Perhaps, it is some combination of the two, given the unaccounted for funding and the ultra-secretive nature of principals and proceedings. It is where almost everything and everyone involved are part of a very close(d) circle, like Bernie Madoff.
Without a doubt, it is a bureaucratic Auschwitz: things pass through its doors, they evaporate; associated unnamed people end up in a state of suspended non-existence. There are no records. Except, that is, for the crematorium ambience and the crematorium smell. There is another peculiar aspect to NICIL: It answers to no one. Not the people. Not parliament. Not the sitting president. It is bigger than the new president. It is safe to say, all things considered, that it might be bigger than Guyana.
Editor, the powerful CIA, and the still mighty KGB, super-secret entities in officially sanctioned clandestine business, do report somewhere and to someone. On occasion, both have been compelled to divulge the gory details. Yet here is NICIL in Guyana claiming and insisting on exemption and privilege. To be blunt, these postures and body language of its people are: to hell with you! All of you! I do not recall any presidential pardon in this instance.
Now the time has come to get real hardnosed and brass-knuckled. This monstrosity named NICIL needs to be dismantled company by company, and its overseers carted away. This now insulting presence and finger-in-the-eye of Guyanese society must go. Every day of its continued existence reminds of twenty-three years of wickedness.
It is past the time for this destabilizing influence to be detoxified and denuded. The financial sponsors to this biggest front (and largest secret society) in Guyana might be out of sight and out of reach.
But the homegrown architects must be exposed and punished for the multiple assaults on the intelligence and conscience of this nation.
NICIL must go. It must go now.
GHK Lall

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