The year that Jaws survived to terrorise once more

Jan 05, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

For me, if anything was frightening about 2017, it was the survival of the PPP and the psychotic energy it expended. In very few countries, a fallen regime of the type we had under Jagdeo and Ramotar, would be able to reinvigorate itself and function after the loss of power as if it did not harm the social fabric and body politic of this nation.
I don’t know how I am voting in 2020. But I know who I am campaigning against and voting against – the PPP. The people of this country owe it to themselves, their parents, (alive or dead) their children and future generations to prevent the PPP from returning to power. What these people did to Guyana was unbelievably depraved.
Do you know Irfaan Ali was remarried on Old Year’s Night? He rented out the entire top level of New Thriving Restaurant at Providence. When you think of how fancy that place is, the patronage the owners would get on that night of the year, then Ali paid a prodigious sum to hold his wedding reception there.
Here are the words of my editor, Adam Harris on Irfaan Ali in his column of Sunday, December 17, 2017; “ Anil Nandlall told me that when Jagdeo became president he had nothing. It meant that the wealth was accumulated over the twelve years of the presidency, so I looked at the salary and allowances. They did not add up. I looked at others, one of them being Irfaan Ali. He too is a wealthy person. He had no inheritance, but he became wealthy without playing the stock market.”
Let me be pellucid, for a man who had no background in wealth, who worked in the Ministry of Finance and became a Minister in 2011 to rent that place, Harris has to be right – Ali is wealthy. But let’s juxtapose Harris’s statement with that of the PPP on me. Here it is; “When the PPP assumed office, Freddie Kissoon commuted by minibus. When the PPP demitted office, Freddie Kissoon was driving an SUV.”
It would be nice to hear the PPP’s position on Ali’s access to wealth so soon after 2011, on what Harris wrote and on his wedding reception at New Thriving.
It is politicians like Jagdeo and Ali that perambulated the roadways of Guyana in 2017 asking Guyanese for political sustenance. 2017 had to be the most incredulous and incredible year in the history of politics in Guyana, probably the region. Forensic audits have revealed information of financial skullduggery that in any country would have landed past leaders in the docks.
On the personal level in 2017, no governmental mistake, no egregious act by the present administration, no depravity in the City Council could have been more unbelievable for me that the continuation in politics of past leaders who stole public money, brutalise their opponents, treated the resources of the State as if it was theirs to giveaway.
But that is only half the story. As the forensic audits washed up dead bodies and unearthed lavish wealth, in 2017, only one past leader said, “I will pay up for things I got that I shouldn’t have from the country.” That was Robert Persaud. He said he is willing to pay market price for the house lot he got in Pradoville 2.
2017 came and went and not even a slice of an apology was offered by the leadership of a political party that dominated the nation for 23 years during which time illegalities, immoralities and debaucheries characterised the exercise of power. On the contrary, the bullies who were in power remained the same bullies out of power. Jaws was still alive and terrorising citizens in 2017
2017 could easily be described as the year of two sad things – the demoralisation of the police force and the fear of the Speaker of the House. Caught on camera was the assault of a policeman doing his duty to his country to bring order and decency to his country’s Parliament. He was cuffed and slapped in his back and his shirt shredded by the manhandling by PPP members of the House. To date, there are no charges. Why should a police rank see his/her duty in an honourable way?
And our Speaker watched the most disgraceful display of vulgarity in the House by PPP parliamentarians and to date, he has not called in the police or used the tape as evidence to bring internal charges against the marauding Philistines, ignoramuses and nincompoops masquerading as lawmakers.
In 2017 some female PPP parliamentarian shouted that rape was taking place in parliament. In my next review, I will disclose who was raped.

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