Eureka! Eureka! I know Charran was bribed!

Mar 30, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

They say the hope for this country lies in its large young population. Almost eighty percent of Guyana is under 45. That is good for the future. For some reasons, the folks in the sixties and seventies are becoming arch conservative with age and in some cases downright reactionary.
Some of these people are regarded as icons. When I read the accusations against Major General Joe Singh and the positions he take as Pro-Chancellor of UG it is depressing. These are accusations coming from lecturers who have not an ounce of political or ethnic connections whatsoever.
There are Clive Thomas, Rupert Roopnaraine, Moses Nagamootoo among others who have destroyed their legacies. Prior to 2015, the history book writers would have situated these three men on the pages designed for heroes. Today, they can best be regarded as faded, jaded mandarins.
Once I have my pen, I will further push these men down the dustbin of corrugated footnotes. Of course, there are too many of them to be mentioned here but the historian owes it to Guyana to shine a candle in dark corners.
Some of these lost souls go to extreme limits to self-destruct. But maybe because of their psychology in which they cannot differentiate a spoon from a cup, they can’t recognize self-destruction. First Nagamootoo. Can there be another politician whose barefacedness exceeds Bharrat Jagdeo?
My bet is on Nagamootoo. Before I proceed to analyze Nagamootoo, I noted twice before the local elections in November last year he said the folks in Whim where he was born were planning to pick his bones. A contact in Whim told me that after the ignominious defeat of the AFC in the local government contest in Whim and the loss of the no confidence motion (NCM) (remember Nagamootoo shouted “bring it on” when Jagdeo suggested postponing the NCM to January of 2019?), the action to pick his bones was in planning stage, now it has started.
So I will go up to Whim this weekend to see how Nagamootoo will be turned into a skeleton. Let’s return to Nagamootoo’s rivalry with Jagdeo for the crown of king of barefacedness. The Whim son defended press freedom when the Guyana Press Association (GPA) denounced the Opposition Leader for insulting Nazima Raghubir.
He scolded Jagdeo but stayed away from a more repugnant violation of press freedom that he committed that was far more sickening than Jagdeo’s unruly words to Raghubir. Since last year June when the Whim son ostracized David Hinds and Lincoln Lewis from the column pages of the Chronicle, Nagamootoo has not uttered one, I repeat, ONE word on the issue. But more than that the two men directly accused him of press nastiness and he is still to respond. I think if the Whim man continues in politics he will steal that crown from Jagdeo. But wait!
Nagamootoo has a soul mate at the Chronicle. His name is Barrington Braithwaite who is a columnist at Nagamootoo’s newspaper. Braithwaite had done a stupendous feat for Nagamootoo. He has turned the Chronicle into a source of credible, intellectual, researchable material.
Braithwaite writing on Charrandass wrote that Charran took a bribe to cast a ‘yes’ vote in the NCM. And the Chronicle actually printed that statement while the KN and SN left out that part of Braithwaite’s correspondence. Braithwaite of course was only echoing what the “owner” of the Chronicle said, that is, the son of Whim.
Three times Nsagamootoo wrote in the newspaper he “owns,” that Charran took money to vote. A friend of mine in the AFC told me that when Nagamooto was asked at an AFC meeting the following question; “How you can say that man? You not afraid Charran sues you?” The Whim man replied; “Well it is the Chronicle that will pay, not me.”
So how did Braithwaite know that Charran took bribe money? He said his source was the Chronicle. Braithwaite noted that the Chronicle wrote that Charran was a compulsive gambler and loser. We are in bad shape in Guyana but we are not over the cliff as yet because Braithwaite is not a judge.
So if you quarrel daily with your landlord, all the landlord’s enemy has to do is kill him and you will be charged because you quarreled every day, so you must be guilty.
Now Braithwaite wrote the actual words that Charran took a bribe and apart from his Chronicle source, he said he believed Charran did take a bribe because the police are investigating him “for bribery and gold smuggling.” So Braithwaite knows Charran took a bribe because of what the Chronicle wrote and what the police said.

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