KN grenade orchestrators, NBS managers and another embarrassing opposition misadventure

Nov 01, 2020 Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column

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By GHK Lall

Kaieteur News – The disturbing question is not who did it, but who was behind the KN grenade attack? No Guyanese should believe that agitated Guyanese simply took it upon themselves to hurl that grenade; or move to silence the witness since chillingly executed. It could be argued that some powers did not like the paper, due to its contents. As such, it would not be those armed with grenades, but those who sent them to do dirty deeds. The intellectual authorship source(s) could be from parliamentary assemblies, or party confines, or penthouse gatherings. Powerful men took objection, so they contracted with freelancers to do their dirty deeds. Democracy, anyone?
The matters involving two managers of the well-known New Building Society (NBS) are at different stages of the court for the longest while. The one involving Operations Manager of the company, Mr. Kent Vincent, was first placed before the court in 2010. It took seven years before his matter was called. By any standards, in any jurisdiction, that is a very long time. Why so long? I understand backlogs and judges with huge caseloads, but to wait seven years for the initial call-up and hearing, seems to me to be a classic instance of justice delayed. Delayed to the point that it is found disturbing. I should mention that Mr. Vincent is a brother of mine, and he and his family have managed, despite this huge cloud hanging over his head and days. I am encouraged that his day in court finally happened; only it took too long.
Further, it has been almost three years since his case has been up at the higher tier of the court. In aggregate, this has to be a decade of torture. I understand better now, because of the specific instances involving Mr. Vincent and his former CEO, Maurice Arjoon (also known to me), the complaints of those who commit capital offenses of the long wait, which sometimes flare into the violence of the frustrated. I appreciate that there is waiting time involved, but seven years followed by another three in Mr. Vincent’s civil matter rises to the level of an injustice by itself. A two to three years wait is understandable, but twice and thrice that is too long. The drawn-out circumstances are familiar to those leaders, who can ease the situation efficiently. Change must happen soon; it must be now.
Now, this concluding development really disturbed. It was the supposedly righteous ruckus raised by the opposition on the dual citizenship circumstances surrounding the Hon. Minister of Tourism, Ms. Oneidge Walrond. Of all the troubling material and pressing issues, at the hands of the senior PNC leadership and its agents, this one should have been a nonissue handled, at the most, as a minimal secondary concern. I think of this as a waste of precious time and energy by the opposition on whether or not the said minister is or is not a dual citizen currently (or was or otherwise when she assumed her ministerial office) does not rise to the level of a national priority. Someone has to be making a fool of the Guyanese public. No wonder opposition supporters are so disillusioned, when there are so many other matters held dear by them that receive little to no reaction from their leaders. What next could be expected from this rickety house of pretenders and cards? It might be more cash, cricket or crickets, who knows?
As I keep insisting, the world over governments are known to mislead and abuse their citizens. The current one in Guyana is no different, and has transformed perverse stealth operations to what is already a settled way of life. A vibrant and honest opposition is what keeps it in check, using a variety of strategies. Disturbingly, today’s Guyanese opposition is a no show in this department.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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