Messy circumstances

Jan 25, 2023 Editorial

Kaieteur News – Some people with convictions trapped in messy marriages find ways to get out of such relationships, and to their advantage. Others who are constricted by shabby jobs take matters into their own hands, and cut all ties, never once looking back. Still others, who are convinced that they have been left holding the ‘wrong end of the stick’ in a business partnership will not suffer that for too long. Once they can do something about it, they make their moves to level the scales by squeezing out better for themselves.

We note, however, that more than strong convictions are required to lift out of what is messy, and sticky. What must also be present is self-esteem, courage, skill, and strength to claw one’s way out from under the yoke that reduces to the powerless. We truly thought that Vice President Jagdeo was such a man, such a leader, one who possessed most, maybe all, of the above attributes and states of mind. That is, he is one who had what it takes to get out of the messy 2016 oil contract that the Coalition APNU+AFC signed with ExxonMobil, which essentially condemned Guyanese into slavery. Unfortunately, the best that Vice President Jagdeo can do is to hurl insults and blame at the Coalition for the messy (in his own words “sh**ty) oil contract. He has made a fine political living cursing the previous APNU+AFC Government for it horrendous failure in that regard, with which we absolutely agree. On the other hand, Mr. Jagdeo cannot expect to get anything out of ExxonMobil, once his focus is on the past, and he does not make renegotiation of the oil contract his cause and calling.

Cursing and blaming the APNU+AFC certainly makes for good political theater and good newspaper copy. But the Vice President is going to have to get off that toilet throne before long; he cannot beat forever what is now a dead horse. What Bharat Jagdeo has to do is make renegotiation of the “sh**ty” oil contract his signature issue, his leadership cornerstone, and the driving force of his visions. Mr. Jagdeo has to stop playing these useless games, cease coming up with these comedic distractions. The past is the past, and it is best that he moves away wisely, purposefully.

Now, and it is already late in the day, Mr. Jagdeo has stand up to ExxonMobil’s people, and manifest that he is the same man that draws the line (mostly for the wrong reasons) with Guyanese who challenge him, or stand in his way. Mr. Jagdeo has accumulated a record of getting in the face of those who provoke him to anger, and prompt him to sharp and heated standoffs. In the instance of the repulsive oil contract, today’s frightened and retreating Bharat Jagdeo must be an apparition of the past, with the old assertive and aggressive leader remerging to lead the charge against ExxonMobil and its criminal contractual handiwork. If he has to get in the face (abusive) to the likes of those from ExxonMobil that tell Guyanese how much the American oil giant has done for them, and how good they have got it, the we are firmly behind him, and got his back. If he has to tell the nifty American Ambassador, Sarah Ann Lynch that her charm school initiatives have lost some of their earlier luster that, too, would be welcomed.

Twist it or turn it, ExxonMobil’s 2016 contract is a messy, sh**ty, dirty, ugly monstrosity that belongs in the garbage bin. The criminal contract has to be, must be, renegotiated and renegotiated now. All this hemming and hawing do nothing for Guyana’s larger prosperity, and these red herrings about the APNU+AFC’s incompetence and blameworthiness all play right into ExxonMobil’s hands. We wonder if ExxonMobil has not put him up to this, so that it buys precious time, allows wiggling out of having to do any renegotiating of the contract. Guyanese are struggling, they need more for their wealth given away dirt cheap. The PPP had choice words for anyone who defended the contract before. Jagdeo must now put up or get out. It is time that he starts fighting (renegotiation), and stop pussyfooting around ExxonMobil.

Coalition APNU+AFC, Editorial, ExxonMobil, Sarah Ann Lynch, Vice President Jagdeo

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