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Bharrat Jagdeo is an irredeemable character

Mar 28, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Six months ago, (SN 21 September 2015), in an article entitled “Why does Jagdeo want to be President again” we wrote this; “the word shame seems to have disappeared from usage in the political arena of the country”.
Well Mr. Editor we did not have to wait long for more proof. In your publication of 25 March 2016, former President Jagdeo demonstrated his temerity and shamelessness. He looked Guyanese in the eye and said the most dishonest and barefaced thing, that “… there was ethnic and regional balance when he granted those radio and television licenses…” in 2011. It did not matter that Guyanese know that one third of the licenses were given to one of his friends and to the PPP, a political party.
In order to possess this degree of dishonesty and temerity he must believe one or all of the following things;
(a) He owes Guyanese nothing and that Guyanese can’t do him anything, irrespective what he did,
(b) Guyanese have no memory, and
(c) Guyanese are not only illiterate, they are stupid.
It does not matter what he believes. What matters is that he is prepared to insult the people of that country by saying to them, in effect, that the thing I did in 2011 which you protested vehemently against because, instinctively and in your heart, you know it to be wrong in every sense of that word, well, I have no apology to make; go to hell I don’t care what you think.
Know this and be warned; when a man who is obsessed with power lose the capacity to be ashamed he will say anything, is capable of the worst things, the worst acts, and will always engage in the abuse of power.
As Guyanese have seen for themselves during the period 2001-2011, in case after case, he is not only capable of saying anything he is capable of much, much worse, too many to recount in this letter, including the case of the Radio and Television licenses. It takes a particular category of dishonesty and crass to behave this way, to insult a people so directly this way. The tragic story that is Guyana continues, because people like him are allowed to come to power.
In Belgium (Thursday 24 March 2016), the Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon and Justice  Minister  Keon Greens offered to resign,  after it was revealed that Turkey provided them with information about one of the Brussels suicide bombers, months before the bombings of  Tuesday 22 March 2016, but they failed to act on said information.
They tendered their resignations out of shame at their incompetence and the cost to the country. They did not have to but know it is the right thing to do.
Now Mr. Editor, these are the kinds of political personalities that people in a democracy should elect; the type that acknowledges their failure, and is ready to leaves office, because they are courageous enough to take personal responsibility for their actions and failure.
One can trust such men with power. They are not power drunk and are clearly decent human beings. Mr.Jagdeo is a different story, a human being who is devoid of the capacity for shame :- (Guyanese can finish this sentence and reflect on the implications for themselves). Good luck to the people of Guyana.
Ivor Carryl

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