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People pressure
Kaieteur News – The new and inspiring have been occurring in the world of commerce: stubborn, resistant, and arrogant corporate managements have been corrected, or kicked out, by their shareholders and other stakeholders. The unprecedented has been happening in the insulated world of religious hierarchies. People from the pews, and from those who are not part of the religious ruling class, have been calling out their stewards, by saying enough, no more of the double standards: no more one standard for those in charge, and another for those following. In the high-pressure world of sports, coaches and managers have been booted. In the realm of powerful, unhearing, and unmoving politicians, voters use the ballot box to get rid of them.
Leaders who only hear themselves, and continue with their own failed visions, are given a good, long delayed, kick in the behind and out of the corridors of power. When circumstances get so unbearable, people are not left with much choice. The voiceless find voice, the spineless cease being so supine, and the cowardly find it in themselves to speak out courageously. Risks are ignored; people decide that there are more important things to them than blind political loyalty, so they separate from the old cult leadership devotion.
More Guyanese are no longer content to elect people to power, then sit back and give them the freest rein to run them over; voters have had their fill of such ridicule. Those who put politicians in power have the power to shake them out of their Dark Age mentality, and their primitive ideas of leadership, rulership, and stewardship. Circumstances are such that Guyanese are hurting under the PPP/C, despite all the lovely accolades. Guyanese are losing under the PPP/C, despite having all the statistical riches per man, woman, and child in the world. More citizens have come to this conclusion: Guyanese are being taken for fools, or being made into fools, by the PPP/C, with Jagdeo performing in the starring role.
The people are not having any more of it, for the more he tries to distract them with his rabbit tricks, the more he falls flat on his face. What is worse for Jagdeo is that the more he lashes out and tries to beat down Guyanese into the ground and silence, the more hassled and pettier and desperate he looks. Take away the weapons of ‘cuss down’ and ‘buse down’ and ‘wine down that are his favourites, and Jagdeo becomes lost and limp, and tongue-tied and timid. He does not have anything left, because his bag has been busted, and all the hot air in him goes away in a rush. The halo in which he surrounds himself, and which he believes gives him some sort of invincibility, shatters and leaves him looking most unlike the leader that he could have been.
The people want pressure to be put on ExxonMobil to bring the company to the table of renegotiation to dismantle and start over from scratch with the 2016 contract. Now is not the time for leadership timidity. There must be leadership tenacity, given 11 billion barrels of oil. If ExxonMobil has to be forced to the renegotiation conference room kicking and screaming, then let it be.
A constant amount of pressure from the people and by the people, as properly applied, on President Ali, Vice President Jagdeo, and Opposition Leader Norton is what will shake them to their cores. It is either that they listen and act, or that they are prepared to hit the road. They had their chances, they have failed. Given the sentiments rising from the ground and street corners and common quarters, this is about individual and family prosperity, and to hell with party supremacy.
All three leaders (Ali, Jagdeo, Norton) have to stop splitting hairs, and carry themselves as though they are counting snowflakes in blazing hot Guyana, when the issue is about dealing with ExxonMobil to get a fair contract for Guyana. All the leadership dodging and dissembling have to be discontinued, starting right now. Stop bending over backwards in trying to please ExxonMobil. Make a start working for the interests of the Guyanese people, and giving them something tangible for their hopes and visions.
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