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The PM’s Rep only confirmed what I have said

Jan 25, 2018 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I am most elated that Mr. Gobin Harbhajan has tacitly agreed that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has indeed forsaken his principles of frugality and a lean and clean Government, and that he is now definitely enjoying ‘the good life’ with his few other comrades, since his letter to the press did not deny that fact.
In my letter, I wrote that, ‘as soon as the Coalition won the 2015 General Elections and he took office as the Prime Minister of this country, his principles took a landslide into the abyss of egocentricity. He has focused all his efforts in self-aggrandizement and self-promotion. Nowadays, his speeches are just centered about himself anyone who listens to him can confirm this’. I have noticed that Mr. Harbhajan did not refute this.
Furthermore, the Prime Minister’s Representative only confirmed what I have said.
From the letter written by Mr. Harbhajan, it is clear that the PM never visited any sugar estate nor did he ever ’engage sugar workers and their families’ as claimed by the leader of the AFC, Mr. Trotman, and all he did was travel with great pomp and style, ‘cutting ribbons and giving speeches’ most of which are about himself and enjoying the ‘good life’. He never visited the farmers at Black Bush Polder, but met with some of them at State House in New Amsterdam during the flood last year.
As for being ‘an outstanding son of the soil’, I beg to differ. This man, as was pointed out by another letter writer, last year at the 104th Anniversary of the Rose Hall Martyrs claimed that sugar workers was his ‘obsession,’ yet he did not have the time to visit any of them in their hour of need. In fact he had described GuySuCo as a ‘black hole’ and that sugar workers were ‘raiders of the Treasury’. Is this the hallmark of ‘an outstanding son of the soil? This ‘good man’ has surely put himself down.
Moreover, Mr. Harbhajan, maybe because of your tight schedule looking after the interests of the people, you forgot to mention the expensive entourage which the PM travels with and the expensive first class trips abroad which never brought any benefits to this Nation.
I wrote that he had aggressively fought against the PNC for most of his life and now he has joined them. May I add that he is now so silent about the many corrupt practices of this Coalition that it makes one wonder, whether this gentleman ever stood for anything at all!
I must give the PM credit for appointing Mr. Harbhajan, a very competent person, but I do feel that he should be focusing more on doing the good job he is doing in Region 6 and do not try to defend a man who has betrayed the trust and confidence of the people who once supported him and has played a major role in destroying the founding principles of the Alliance for Change.
Do not be contaminated or afflicted by the ‘Moses Syndrome’ or you may lose your way, Mr. Harbhajan.
Lastly, I am curious to know whether the things which he gifted are from the Budget of his Office (taxpayers’ dollars) or came from his own pocket.
Rohit Persaud

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