Brutal confession by the AFC that it became dead meat

Oct 26, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Journalists, editors, political observers, political commentators and social analysts usually make reference to the term “dead meat” invented by the AFC prior to 2015.
It was AFC leader, Khemraj Ramjattan, who first employed the term to describe the AFC stance of distance between itself and the two major parties.
Other party leaders constantly made reference to the appellation when asked if the AFC would team up with either the PPP or PNC. The dead meat explanation was always invoked.
Ramjattan said once the AFC joined with either the PNC or PPP, the AFC would end up as dead meat.
Famous names in Guyana like Ralph Ramkarran, Henry Jeffrey, and countless letter-writers to the newspapers remind their readers that in teaming up with the PNC, the AFC in fact has become dead meat. I should not omit myself. I have done several columns on the failure of the AFC since it went into Government and I concluded that the AFC is dead meat. Let me repeat. I believe the AFC is dead meat.
Do I have the evidence? I think I do and my evidence is based on my interpretation of certain facts. One can disagree with my perspectives but you cannot disagree with facts. I will cite two facts to arrive at my conclusion that the AFC is dead meat. Again, I stress this is my approach.
In 2016, then chairman of the AFC, Nigel Hughes, drafted an amendment to the anti-narcotic law specifically in relation to the penalty for the possession of certain amounts of marijuana.
The Hughes Bill sought to do three things; remove the charge for tiny amounts; allow for bail; and allow for fines in instead of mandatory prison term on conviction.
The Hughes Bill was put on the Order Paper in the House in 2016 to be read in the name of AFC parliamentarian, Michael Carrington. The Opposition PPP publicly said it would vote in favour of Hughes’s amendments The Bill never reached debate stage. It was taken off the Order Paper.
Carrington in an interview told the media that the Bill was shelved at the request of the PNC leadership. I did a column on Carrington’s revelation. To date the PNC has not denied Carrington’s accusation. One would have thought on such an important issue both AFC and PNC would have either confirm or deny Carrington’s emanation.
At an AFC press conference in 2018, then AFC chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, told the media the Bill will be debated in the House in June 2018. Guyana has gone past June 2019. What happened to the Bill? AFC has not explained it to the Guyanese people.
My opinion is simple. The PNC (I honestly believe the main obstacle is President Granger) probably dictated that the AFC Bill should be put on hold. Here is where I see the AFC as dead meat.
Here is my second example of the dead meat scenario. On Thursday last the AFC held a press conference to voice vexation on the PNC’s subtle, invisible, unannounced rejection of Ramjattan as the PM candidate. At that briefing, the AFC made a brutal confession.
The AFC leaders at the table told the media that one of its goals after it won the 2015 election with the PNC was constitutional reform and it did pursue it but its efforts ran into trouble. The AFC went on to tell the nation that the Prime Minister was undermined in his attempt to push constitution reform.
Here are the exact words of the head table; “(The Prime Minister’s) further attempts were either obstructed or resisted.”
You have to be a complete jackass to deny that the AFC is referring to its partner in government, the APNU. It cannot be the Prime Minister. The AFC was pellucid in stating that his further movement on constitutional reconstruction was stymied. The reference cannot to other leaders of the AFC; it would make absolutely no sense at a press conference for the AFC to say that AFC leaders themselves sabotaged constitutional confabulations.
Any logical mind, any sane mind, any thinking mind, any rational mind would know that the AFC is pointing to APNU.
What is sickening about this revelation is that the AFC only told Guyana about this constitutional reform guillotine two days ago after it was engaged in a huge quarrel with APNU.
All this time, the AFC remained silent on what a majority of Guyanese would consider the way out of the political morass that has stalked Guyana since Independence – far-reaching constitutional changes.
So why this confession now? Because dead meat can’t talk. It is time someone fumigate this dead meat before the rotting thing causes a national health tragedy.

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