Still waiting to hear that the CCJ is biased and racist

Jun 28, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Except for one dual citizen who lives happily in the US where he doesn’t have to emulate the Cabinet ministers and travel to Ireland for medical treatment, not one APNU+AFC supporter has even with an infinitesimal hint said the CCJ panel didn’t like the government or was racist or preferred to rule in favour of the PPP.
Instead, the reaction to the CCJ decisions came mainly from five persons. Granger led the troops by saying the CCJ must tell him how, why and where his decision to appoint Justice Patterson was unconstitutional. Granger didn’t show courage of conviction because he has accepted that he acted unilaterally by his imminent dialogue with Jagdeo to replace Patterson.
As for Patterson, he is certainly a Shakespearian character. He came, turned into a messenger, was happy to be seen as joining the permanent political battle that has engulfed Guyana since the fifties, didn’t care about perceptions, and then as Shakespeare wrote, had his moments of fame.
I would say fame to be kind to Patterson but some would probably want to be harsh and use the term, Infamy.
Anyway, he came like a flash of lightning and we don’t know when we will ever see him again if he doesn’t live in Guyana. Then there was the “war break” man, the Finance Minister, Winston Jordan.
After the CCJ decisions, he shouted out (again I beg someone to tell me if he was speaking at a Cabinet retreat or a party rally); “From today Comrades, war break.” I will leave it at that because this is a politician that is compulsively driven to accuse you of libeling him.
Number three is Nagamootoo. Well his long controversial career is now permanently stained. At the same rally where the “war break” man made his exclamation, Nagamootoo shouted to the crowd; “The young people who turned 18 since the last elections, their names are not on that voters’ list and anyone who calls for an election without our young people being on that voters’ list, they’re calling for trouble in this country,”
What intrigues me about this fulmination by Nagamootoo is that every schoolboy in Guyana knows and does not have to be told, that if Nagamootoo is going to bring votes to the APNU+AFC party those ballots have to be from Indian areas where there has always been a reluctance to vote for the PNC.
I am definitely waiting with huge curiosity to see how his home village of Whim is going to react to that very emotion he displayed in Bartica last week.
Obviously, he has to go in Indian areas and shout’ “Young people will not take it lying down if they don’t get to vote.” I have been told the election campaign of the AFC has been secretly launched and that Nagamootoo will be in Whim this weekend. When he tells 18-year-old villagers in Whim that the PPP don’t want house to house registration therefore young Berbicians will be disenfranchised, what is going to be their reaction? Will they garland him, and say, “Yes, Papa Nagga, we will cause trouble if we don’t get to vote.”
Or will they pelt him with ice-cream as what happened in the UK during the EU parliamentary elections, recently? I am going up this Saturday and wild horses cannot drag me away from Whim.
Number four is Minister Hastings Williams and number five is Foreign Minister Karen Cummings. They both showed angry emotions about the CCJ verdicts. So far, what has been missing from the repertoire is any accusation from any quarter of the APNU+AFC leadership, their supporters and their angry fans about political or racial bias of the CCJ panel members.
Here we see how perverted some PPP humans are. When the three judges of the Guyanese Court of Appeal overturned the High Court decision in the no-confidence vote, I was shown Facebook postings where many Indians said that the two African judges favoured the government while the lone Indian judge, Rishi Persaud, wisely voted for the opposition’s case.
Guyana has some of the worst humans that civilization produced. These PPP supporters deliberately omitted in their racist bile that the High Court decision that the no-confidence vote was valid was made by an African Guyanese judge.
My hope is that the Opposition Leader selects a foreigner to head GECOM. This will certainly dent the morbid intentions of those from both sides of the racial divide. If he is a Guyanese Indian, he/she will be accused of favouring the PPP. Is he/she is an African Guyanese, the cry will be he/she is racial. God help Guyana, please!

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