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The accusation that Charrandass took a bribe

Feb 06, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Guyana is the most macabre country in the world. Just name a person who uses his office to take money and you would get a libel writ faster than the movement of your eyes. People are openly writing that Charrandass Persaud took a bribe to vote in favour of the opposition’s no –confidence motion (NCM).
The Police Commissioner has publicly said that there is an investigation into Persaud but for now Persaud has to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
In his January 27, 2019 Chronicle column, Nagamootoo went into directions that makes one wonder if the Chronicle has become a floor cloth dirtier than when the PPP used it as a rag. Could one say those things that Nagamootoo penned without getting into volcanic lava with the courts?
Can a citizen of any country write that John Jones paid the board to become the CEO of his company or a senior public officer had sex with her boss to earn a promotion without being sued? In which part of the world is that possible?
It is virtually impossible to repeat what Nagamootoo wrote about the sources of Charrandass’s finance in that Chronicle piece without incurring a libel writ. Persaud is yet to sue. Poor me! Let me say who has taken cash in violation of the oath of their office and Kaieteur News boss Glenn Lall will say what he has always said to me when the libels come, “Freddie try deh; yuh dey pon yuh own.”
I am not on my own, will not be on my own because I will not name names of people who I have been told took money. People told me that certain AFC big guns took American funds to form the AFC. I don’t believe it.
People told me that a certain radical man took money to settle with President Jagdeo to come out of prison and to set up a charity. I don’t believe it. People told me that a huge figure in the PNC got financial generosity from rich businessmen who at the time were President Jagdeo’s benefactors. I don’t believe it.
I could go on. I am tempted to be provocative and elongate on things I know about the sordid career of Nagamootoo but my editors will throw it out and Glenn Lall will call me and say; “Yuh smoking konga pump?”
So it looks like only certain people can use certain media outlets to openly accuse others of taking dozens of millions of dollars in bribes and not be sued.
Jagdeo as opposition leader says he will sue Aubrey Norton over the Charrandass bribery controversy and Charrandass himself says he will sue the Police Commissioner and Khemraj Ramjattan for making those kinds of allegations. He told the Stabroek News, he will do so shortly.
In fairness to the Police Commissioner he never said Charrandass took a bribe to vote on the NCM. He told the media that the police are investigating, which I think is his job. And he is on record as saying that Charrandass is innocent until proven guilty. If he is planning to sue the Police Commissioner and Khemraj Ramjattan then he will hit the roof when he reads the January 27 piece by Nagamootoo.
Back to the Chronicle. Barrington Braithwaite, one of the Commissioners of the Ethnic Relations Commission, and the man who penned an interesting reply to me and David Hinds in this newspaper describing all the elections that the PPP rigged and then said that accusations that the PNC rigged elections are “stock propaganda”, has a letter in the January 31 issue of the Chronicle. In that correspondence, Charrandass is accused of receiving a bribe.
Interestingly, the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News omitted that section of Braithwaite’s missive. It would be nice if Braithwaite can provide more details. The entire Guyana would like to know all the dimensions of this bribery. I know I would. Nagamootoo went further than Braithwaite.
Nagamootoo wrote that all indications point to Charrandass being a corrupt man. “All indications” are his words. I am begging to know what “all the indications” are. I have a personal stake in the Charrandas vote.
At a birthday party on David Street, Kitty in 2017, Charrandass told me he would vote down the government in an NCM. I conveyed that to David Hinds that over a fish and plantain chips dinner at Nicky’s Fish Shop on Drury Lane, Campbellville.
In December last year, when the vote came up, he told me what he planned to do. I am prepared ASAP to denounce Charrandass once Moses shows Guyana “all the indications.” But then again there are “alternative facts.”

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