Ugly Christmas gift APNU+AFC gave Guyana

Dec 28, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There will be more discoveries of oil in huge quantities as the months and years pass on and there will be more documents drawn up by foreign companies that are lopsided and our rulers will sign and one for reason essentially.
These foreign business executives have no respect and admiration for Guyana’s rulers because they see how unintelligent our politicians are.
Life has lessons that have to be internalised. If a teacher is always late and the headmaster refuses to intervene, disrespect is born and other teachers will come late too.
If a manager doesn’t stop a store employee from constantly texting while customers are in the store, disrespect will be born and other employees will start texting too. That is life. That is human nature.
If foreign investors see incompetence, mediocrity, aridity and banality in how politicians govern, they will thrust all kinds of nonsensical documents in front of them to sign because they feel that they can manipulate leaders that they see as fools.
In the Christmas Day edition of the newspapers, there were two photographs. One was David Granger and Khemraj Ramjattan shaking hands after signing the renewed Cummingsburg Accord. The other was a photo shoot after the signing, of all the representatives of the parties that make up APNU plus representatives of the AFC.
A picture paints a billion words and those two pictures paint a trillion words of silly leadership and the wasteland that Guyana is.
Make no mistake; your imagination can lead you into thinking things that are simply weird. The night before I saw that image of Granger and Ramjattan shaking hands in the Christmas Day newspapers, I was absorbed in the quarrel between the Russian President and the EU Parliament over the significance of the 1939-Non-Agression Pact between Nazi Germany and the USSR that resulted in the two countries taking over many European countries.
The controversy was all over the global media in the days leading up to Christmas and one newspaper carried a photo of Germany’s foreign minister Ribbentrop and his Russian counterpart, Molotov, shaking hands after the signing.
When I looked at that Granger-Ramjattan image, they just look like Ribbentrop and Molotov. It was an uncanny resemblance of ambiences.
The more important of the two pictures was the one in which the big wigs of the APNU constituents are lined up with broad smiles. When you look at that photo, nothing in life in any part of the world could be more of a lie.
A picture can tell a billion words and that picture in the newspapers on Christmas Day paints a story of a tragic wasteland that will never emerge in the modern world.
The question is – are there sane, rational Guyanese who believe what they looked at? APNU is a nasty, sick joke that no modern nation should accept. Let’s start with Keith Scott’s party. I don’t know its name nor care to, 99.99 percent of the people of this country do not know about a party that is led by a minister named Keith Scott. I say in all seriousness, that party will not get two votes if it contests by itself.
Who in Guyana knows about the Guyana Action Party? Where are its leaders? Where is it located? Who or what is the Justice For All Party? Do people out there believe Mr. CN Sharma can contest the 2020 election and win fifty votes?
Then there is the biggest masquerade band, the WPA. There was no Clive Thomas or Rupert Roopnaraine in the lineup. WPA was represented by Minister Sarabo.
The Guyana Action Party, Justice For All outfit and the thing of Keith Scott do not go around Guyana proclaiming their viability and behave as if they are major players in politics. The WPA does? Yet no one knows who their leaders are if they have a quota of leaders at all.
I honestly believe if it goes alone in the 2020 poll, the WPA cannot get 50 votes. I don’t believe that these fictional formations that call themselves APNU have any members at all. Of course, I am not referring to the PNC.
I believe none of these fictional formations can secure a list of nominees if they should contest by themselves. They probably cannot find resources to campaign in Georgetown much less in Region Four or even in three other Regions.
Finally, two other ugly dimensions of the affair. Why was the signing done at a State House and not the offices of either the PNC or AFC? It was a political party event not a governmental act. And why sign an accord and not announce the details? There is no other messed up country like Guyana.

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