Three sad soldiers make the Pradoville 2 scheme an evil act

Jun 14, 2017 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

When I was a small boy, I often heard my mom wondering if people, on speaking depraved lies, were not afraid that God would render them unable to speak again. I grew, became a political activist, and heard Walter Rodney at a public meeting proclaiming his curiosity as to why when bad leaders speak words of evil lies to their citizens, they were not afraid that they would choke on their words.
If you pick up the daily newspapers and look at the PPP-aligned television stations, you have to feel the way my mom and Walter Rodney felt. Sam Hinds just had a letter days ago extolling the virtues of his government. Clement Rohee did an enumeration of his government’s achievements in the newspapers yesterday. Anil Nandlall published a letter yesterday criticizing the government’s behaviour. PPP Parliamentarian Harry Gill writes a weekly missive. Smartly behind them in the race is the frequent pen of a man who refers to himself as a Christian Bishop, Juan Edghill. He chastised the government last week for party favouritism in the employment of a head mistress.
And then there is the anointed one – the man Bharrat Jagdeo made into the president, “De Donald” as the Kaieteur News has nicknamed him. In a published opinion last week, the former President, Donald Ramotar, warned the nation that dark times are ahead. Well, I must have been living in Timbuktu when “De Donald” was in power. For the three years he was president, the land of Guyana was an area of darkness.
We cannot and must not leave out the phantasmagoria of delusions of grandeur of Bharrat Jagdeo. He thinks he is the best batter of spin on a cricket pitch, but he is a fool perambulating the territory of Guyana in the Emperor’s New Clothes. He nicknamed his broad bat, “The Evader.” Those words are even emblazoned on his shirt sleeve. Ask the Champion of Unclean Georgetown about any depraved pathway he was known for when he was de jure president, 1999-2011 and de facto president 2011-2015, he evades the question.
A few days ago, he sternly avoided offering an answer about the depravities inherent in the Pradoville 2 scheme, when he called the President of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr. Compton Bourne, and offered him a plot at Pradoville 2. There isn’t a citizen with a sane mind that wouldn’t know that the President of the Caribbean Development Bank, because of his salary structure, would not need a subsidized house lot that should have gone to patriotic soldiers and policemen.
Sam Hinds, Rohee, Ramotar and the rest of the troglodytes that once ruled this nation were in power when in December 2000, a huge explosion engulfed the military installation of Camp Groomes on the Linden Highway. Soldiers died and some were badly injured. Yesterday, sixteen years and six months after that fire, the Kaieteur News featured as a front page lead, with photographs, the story of three of the survivors. It was the journalism of humanism, but it was also the journalism of exposure, exposure of the brutal times in which we lived under Jagdeo, Ramotar and the troglodytes.
Those men were injured in 2000, the dinosaurs were thrown out of power in 2015, and in those fifteen years, they did absolutely nothing for these soldiers who were badly injured, and badly is a mild adjective. The picture of the destruction of the two feet of Colwin Lewis was not good for the faint-hearted. The picture of the house he lives in makes you want to hate every PPP leader that was in power when these men were injured.
So are we going to see letters in the newspapers from Sam Hinds – who wants us to think he was the honest face of the PPP when they were in power – condemning his president for the mistreatment of these soldiers? Is frequent letter writer Anil Nandlall going to do penance by penning a lamentation of how sadistic his government was with what they did to these soldiers for the fifteen years his colleagues were in power? Well forget about Clement Rohee; nothing moves him.
And what about the new kid on the block, some guy by the name of Gill, who paints a daily portrait of all the wrongs the APNU + AFC administration, is doing in Region 5? He tells us about Carol Joseph, Abel Seetaram and Pradeep Bachan – all APNU+AFC officials in Region 5. Would Gill like to talk about his feelings on Kaieteur News’ front page story yesterday?
I end with a call for a fund to be set up for surgery for Colwin Lewis’ feet.

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