Imran Khan, the Director of Public Information is a hypocrite

Apr 10, 2017 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Here is an extract from the May 4, 2016 edition of Kaieteur News on the resignation from the Board of NCN of the Director of Public Information, Imran Khan.
“Khan made it clear that he had informed Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo that he could not associate himself with the appointment, which he described as “reckless” and “imprudent”.
“Specifically, I advised the Prime Minister that in light of the Chairman of the Board reporting to the board, confirming admittance to an act committed by the individual (Cornette, who was) recommended for a senior administrative position, I am of the conviction that continuing as a Director is untenable.”
Following Cornette’s appointment, emails exchanged between Khan and NCN Board Chairman Bishwa Panday had been published. In it, Panday could be seen defending his decision to appoint Cornette over the objections of Khan. Khan, however, expressed strong reservations over Cornette’s appointment.
In the emails, Khan had stated that he was “gravely afraid” of entrusting Cornette with the appointment and that if it reached the public domain, the board could find itself in a situation where it could not defend its decision. He had described it as a “huge risk”
Khan presented himself as the embodiment of moral propriety and the custodian of Guyana’s moral values when he resigned from NCN over Lennox Cornette’s appointment. The latter, it was revealed, had composed the signature of GTT’s Public Relations Officer on a document, knowing that it was an invention. He was not charged and later resumed his relationship with GTT.
This same Khan who found front page fame in the newspapers over his moral indignation over what Cornette did has now committed an equally egregious act even more depraved than what he has accused Cornette of.
So far, he has escaped the castigations of the Guyanese society because this country is virtually dead and cannot distinguish a moral revulsion from an engine propulsion. Here is what Khan did and if he thinks I am going to let his moral lapse be forgotten, then he is mistaken. I am going to keep it in the public consciousness until he is forced to resign from his million dollars a month job paid for by the taxpayers.
My point is that if Khan could accuse Cornette of moral indiscretion and he commits the same violation, then he is a hypocrite and should so be deemed by this society.
In his capacity as Public Relations Officer for the Alliance For Change, Mr. Khan composed a press release on an action of Freddie Kissoon that was non-existent. He took the press release to the AFC’s leadership for approval and received it. He received the permit to write a fiction about me from the leadership of a party that knew me years before they ever dreamt of meeting Imran Khan and a party that I helped to popularize when it was in its infancy, and one in which I campaigned for tempestuously in the 2015 election campaign. I spoke at about thirty public meetings, Khan spoke at none.
Khan and the AFC denounced me for the assertion that President Granger appointed his son-in law as a Minister and two other Ministers on his own in his capacity as President outside of the Cummingsburg Accord. I made no such assertion. Khan repeated this falsehood which Minister Joe Harmon and President Granger first birthed.
Because of some strange, psychic contortion, Khan felt he had to emulate Minister Harmon and the President and make the same accusation against me. Because of some twisted psychological drive, Khan felt he had to do what he accused Cornette of doing.
The facts are that at an AFC press conference, the tape of which I have, the AFC leader Raphael Trotman told Guyanese that the President, acting on his own, appointed his son-in-law, Dominic Gaskin as Business Minister, creating that post for him which did not exist in the Cummingsburg Accord and two other Ministers; he, Trotman and Noel Holder as Minister of Agriculture.
Mr. Trotman spoke these words openly at the press conference, which was attended by the Minister of Business, Khan himself and the General-Secretary of the AFC, Marlon Williams. In fact, Khan has the recording. The next day, Denis Chabrol carried what Trotman said. As a columnist, I never asserted that the President appointed three Ministers on his own. As a columnist, I did what all columnists did the past 2000 years and are still doing – report and reflect on the news. The AFC owes me an apology. Imran Khan is a liar and a hypocrite, period!

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