Where have all the friends of the Mohameds gone?

Jun 19, 2024 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – What follows is going to cause raised eyebrows, even some rocking back on the heels. Regardless, it is identical to the public stance I took for one Bharrat Jagdeo in his hour of darkness and another fine character by the name of Nigel Dharamlall in his time of tortured scrutiny. These citizens have rights, they are due certain presumptions and the protections that go with those. What was good for Jagdeo and Dharamlall must also hold true for the Mohameds, father and son.

If mine has to be the only sober voice in these parts, then it is so. If I am the sole citizen still capable of reasoning, then I stand alone. If the standards that we say we are about in normal times vanish for every other Guyanese when the hour is darkest, then I shall cling to those standards. Let the chips fall. This is not a pontification or pretense for me, like some of the big, bad wolves in the PPP Government, whose lairs are in the Office of the President and that of the Vice President. The Mohameds are due fairness amid the frenzies. Weren’t they the people who were so generous with their compassion and their cash? I look around, I listen. Where are their friends now? What happened to all those once grateful beneficiaries, all those peacetime endorsers who literally drooled over themselves with love for the Mohameds father and son combo? See, how quickly all those who took their lavishness also took away their cambio license? Observe how those who held themselves out as comrades and compatriots have found cover in a hurry. Other nine pins will fall. But I am not hurling any bowling ball. Let justice take its course. Let all that have been accumulated against them in 30 months now be presented against them to damn them. Or to deliver them.

I never had any dealings, any encounters with the younger Mohamed. Mr. Mohamed, the Elder and I had our run-ins, if they can be called such. I have never had any business other than the business of the Guyanese people done between me and him, and in the straightest manner. I read what the US Treasury’s OFAC put into the public domain. There is awareness of what is not in the public realm. But it is still imperative that I pass no judgment for or against either of them. What I wish for myself, I hope that they get in a superhot environment roiled to mob-like abandon. In the simplest format, it is a level field in which to defend themselves or yield, and not the treacherous thickets of any witch hunts for scalps to be held aloft as examples. I know about witch hunts, having been made a victim of those. Bharrat Jagdeo should be approached for answers on issues like these. And because I have been there, I cannot be a part of any such thing for anybody. The Mohameds will overcome by the power of their record, or crumble under the weight of it.

Last, there is a heavy degree of anti-Muslim sentiment in sections of the PPP as a party and government, Zulfikar and the big chief notwithstanding. I sense some of that being used to lash and smash the Mohameds. Fair is fair, and fair must not be foul. In this regard, I am the last friend that any Guyanese would want; but I cannot kick anyone when he or she is down. But what of the many fair-weather ones that once surrounded them? To which caves have they retreated, keeping their heads low, hoping the winds blow over? The point of all this is not for whom the bell tolls. Rather, it is a harsh reminder of the stark state of affairs that result when the music and good times stop. I have been there, too. Yes, I know that there is the risk of being denounced as either a mad fellow or an utterly stupid one. Either way, I must be who I am, and no other.

Sincerely,

GHK Lall

GHK Lall, Letters, Mohameds, Nigel Dharamlall

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