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Has the AFC sold its morality?

Dec 09, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
The major news outlets have reported that in a leaked email to Alliance For Change (AFC) members, Dr. Rohan Somar, from the New York AFC said the appointment by the PNC Executive President of an Afro Guyanese GECOM Chairman, whether right or wrong, rips open the scars of PNC rigging the election. You have just thrown red meat to the notion of ‘PNC rigging election’ which, in my view, will cause to forever lose Indo-Guyanese support at the polls.”
Since then I have seen multiple Social Media posts and letters in the local media calling for the AFC to disassociate itself from these racist remarks. To date the AFC has refused. A few days ago a well known Guyanese–Canadian blogger said in a blog that the AFC would never sanction Dr. Somar because he is their biggest financial donor. If this is true, then the AFC has sold its morality to racial extremists.
As an Indian AFC supporter, I’m disappointed that our stalwart Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, respected Ministers Raphael Trotman, David Patterson, Khemraj Ramjattan, Cathy Hughes, Noel Holder, Dominic Gaskin and others who were on Dr. Somar’s email thread and who received his offensive email have said nothing on this matter. I am very uncomfortable with their silence. As a party, where is the sense of responsibility and decency?
Is calling the President of the APNU+AFC coalition government a “PNC” President and attacking his race and Justice Patterson’s race the way that the AFC expects to grow its support base and achieve national unity? If these same words were uttered by a PPP, these AFC Ministers would have been rushing to the media microphones to condemn it. Enough of the hypocrisy!
Navin Seelall
Toronto Canada

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