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Bharrat Jagdeo’s Press Conference

Dec 11, 2022 Editorial

Kaieteur News – It would have been better if Vice President Bharat Jagdeo maintained silence, stayed hidden, and not go through the motions of holding a Press Conference.  Why keep one, if there is going to be no talking on oil, which he made absolutely clear on Friday afternoon?  What is the use of keeping any Press Conference, when the richest gift, the biggest asset, to come to Guyana is blocked from being part of the exchanges, so that Guyanese could get insights on what is going with their oil wealth?

It is an ongoing struggle for us when we observe powerful leaders reduced to helpless, pitiful figures when our oil is the topic that has to be front and center.  They say that they are dealing with citizens in a straight manner.  Yet they do everything to duck and evade probing questions, so that we learn more, and understand much more, than what we know with this wealth.  The Coalition Government failed all of us with the 2016 oil contract that it signed, which left most Guyanese where they have always been, viz., in a state of poverty and need.  It was about silence and secrecy to our grave financial detriment, and it now beyond doubt that the returning PPP/C Government, with Jagdeo leading the way, continues the same practices, but at a more cunning level, a sickeningly disturbing depth.

We all know how much the PPP, when it was in Opposition, and in the early months of its return to the corridors of power, cursed and denounced that 2016 oil contract executed by the Coalition APNU+AFC on behalf of the Guyanese people.  Now it is the same PPP/C, this time in Government, and with all the power in its hands doing nothing, other than giving ExxonMobil still freer rein to continues its rampant robberies of Guyana’s treasure.

In his three-hour Press Conference, Jagdeo cleverly used up most of that time talking about race and carbon credits, among other issues, but on oil he had little to say.  When Bharat Jagdeo doesn’t want to talk about oil, then ExxonMobil is empowered some more to fill our heads with what is beneficial to its interests.  When Jagdeo and the PPP/C Government give ExxonMobil unconditional leeway to do what is to its advantage, the American company has been all too pleased to seize the opening and mislead Guyanese on how much the company is the best friend, a most generous of partners, to Guyanese.  When Jagdeo digs in his heels, seals his lips, from talking about where matters stand with out oil, then it is as good as if he has given ExxonMobil the clearance to speak for the PPP/C Government, to be his chief spokesman to the Guyanese people.

ExxonMobil, for its part, then moves to fill the heads of the Guyanese people with its bilge about its hundreds of billions from our oil deposited in Guyana’s coffers, and how it has dealt with Guyanese cleanly and honestly.  When Jagdeo decides he has nothing to say about the nation’s oil, he surrenders that responsibility to ExxonMobil, and its schemers, its public relations people, such as Alistair Routledge and Darren Woods to make fools out of us.

It is obvious that Bharat Jagdeo has made up his mind that whatever he feels like telling Guyanese about their oil, then that is all that they are going to get.  Whatever he holds back and keeps to himself, Guyanese will have to learn to deal with whatever he gives to them.  This is the time when Jagdeo should be dedicating himself, his energies and his mind, to delivering the most information about every development in our oil sector.  Yet, it is now that Jagdeo decides that he will do as he pleases, and also allow ExxonMobil to do as it pleases.

We have 10 times more oil than when the contract was signed.  But that does not matter to Jagdeo, so committed he is to aiding and abetting how ExxonMobil robs this country.  ExxonMobil does not want Guyanese to get the fullest understanding of what is going with their oil, and Jagdeo is all for that, part of the concoctions that dress up garbage as gold.

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