Some questions about who is taking bribes

Jul 26, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

When Charrandass voted for the no-confidence motion (NCM), immediately, not the day after or days after, but immediately in and around Parliament that night, persons were openly talking about Charran taking money to vote yes for the NCM.
Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Bhagwan fed the fury of bribe-taking. The police were called in to investigate the act of illegality against Charran. The Police Commissioner went in another direction. He said that the enquiry into the allegation of bribe-taking also involves a national security dimension.
It is more than seven months since the NCM was passed in the House. The Commissioner of Police has not in any speech or public interview updated Guyanese on the nature of both the financial and national security aspects of the probe into Charrandass.
Charran has sued Khemraj Ramjattan but strangely has not filed a writ against Nagamootoo who used pellucid semantics in condemning Charran for illicit funding. Charran has not sued the Chronicle over Barrington Braithwaite’s incredible descent into unequivocal defamation over bribe-taking.
Braithwaite went so far as to describe the personal circumstances of Charran that led to him taking money to vote for the NCM. Even in the nasty days of PPP’s hegemony, the Chronicle would not have published such infamous assault on another person’s character without proof.
I told Mark Benschop when he interviewed me that there are outputs in areas of power under the APNU+AFC leadership that are far more egregious than when the PPP ruled.
I gave Benschop one example – governance at UG was more terrible than any period of the PPP’s 23 years in power. Here is another example – the descent into the gutter of journalism by the Chronicle.
I am still nonplussed that a lawyer of the caliber of Charran still has not sued Braithwaite and the Chronicle. If you are not familiar with Braithwaite’s attack, then please visit it at the Chronicle’s web site and tell me how the press association could have remained silent on the Chronicle’s abuse of the sacred principles of journalism and how the Ethnic Relations Commission could retain Braithwaite as a commissioner.
As we mentioned Benschop, let me inform readers that when he started a question on Charran, I immediately intervened before he could finish and exclaimed that Charrandass Persaud is a close personal, friend for the past thirty years, remains such a friend.
I admired his courage in voting for the NCM. I supported his vote and still do. I did end my interception by saying if I could be presented with proof that he took money to vote for the NCM, I will certainly bring the friendship to an end.
Let us now ask some question of all those who see an ugly motive in Charran voting yes for the NCM. My point here is to bring into focus the theatre of the absurd which should have been confronted by decent people since the NCM. Why is a crucial act of an important player in society a source of perverted conspiracies if we do like how he/she acted?
I have no proof that Charran took a bribe. All I know is from the discussions we had about his deep, extensive chagrin over how badly the APNU+AFC’s rule turned out, he wanted to see them go.
On several occasions, he described the AFC in power as being just a sick and twisted as when the PPP governed. I shared his sentiments then. I still do. I would not vote for the PPP. I believe, its governance was terrible but I cannot vote for APNU+AFC because their four years of authority have convinced me that down the road they will do exactly what the PPP did to the fragile state of democracy.
So let’s ask some questions. Did anyone pay Nagamootoo to leave the PPP in 2011 and join the AFC? Did foreign interest offered financial rewards to Khemraj Ramjattan to undermine the PPP Government in 2010?
Did anyone pay Joey Jagan and Ulele Burnham to go on the final campaign trail at Square of the Revolution in 2015 and endorse the APNU+AFC? Did the remnants of the WPA leadership take money to collapse its traditional identity into APNU in 2011?
Did Mark Philips, the recent head of the army receive payment for his support of the PPP’s position that house to house registration is unconstitutional? Did the PPP pay its 2015 prime ministerial candidate, Elizabeth Harper to join with it?
Here is my answer to all those questions. It is a resounding no. People in those circumstances did what they thought was best for their conscience and their country. Why can’t we see Charran in the same context? I do

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