Latest update January 26th, 2025 8:45 AM
Kaieteur News- Guyana oil and gas czar, Bharrat Jagdeo, has drawn his line in the sand. Don’t ask any questions on the Wales Gas-to-Energy (GtE) project. He is finished with answering any such questions. This is from Guyana’s 2nd Vice President, a leader who said that Guyana is not North Korea. When a project that costs US$2B is wrapped in secrecy, but promises the world without any credible study to back up those same promises, then what has Guyana deteriorated to, if not North Korea?
National leaders who take their roles seriously do not wall off information from citizens, and send them to dig for need-to-know information from a lender. It is Jagdeo who has been selling the pluses of this GtE for years, so he is best positioned to provide information that Guyanese need, while answering their questions frankly and fully. He has not done so, and has ducked and drifted when tough questions have been directed at him. His answers conceal more than they convey, always leave the impression that this is a man hiding something. A project to provide citizens with a steady supply of cheap electricity is something to be proud of, one for which more backup documents would be given, than asked for by the media.
It has been the opposite, in that the more questions asked about the Wales GtE project, the more Jagdeo has spun webs to pull the wool over the eyes of Guyanese. When unanswered questions are raised again, he has brandished the weapons that he always has at the ready. They are abuse, viciousness, and nastiness of a kind never seen before in this country. It is now beyond doubt that Jagdeo has lost any care about decency, where his own self-respect doesn’t matter to him. Which leader that has a level of trustworthiness in him would withhold feasibility studies information from citizens and then push them to seek the same from the US Export-Import Bank (EXIM), a lender for a segment of the Wales GtE?
If the EXIM bank does not have any such study from Jagdeo, the man piloting this US$2B project, then does he himself have anything to deliver? Is that why he has been forced to play his hide-and-seek games, because he has nothing for the Wales GtE, which leaves him looking more exposed and woeful?
All of his sweet projections about electricity at half the price and reliably supplied, what are those based on, smoke, or some straw that he snatched out of thin air? There is the irony of Jagdeo, the man who is championing the Wales GtE, running away from straightforward questions on the project. The more he runs and tries to camouflage himself, the more the nation sees a leader who is running away from anything that has to do with light, and a sorry man desperately running from his own shadow.
A project that has been touted to the sky about how much good it is going to deliver to Guyana, should not be the cause of so many anxieties, or the heavy alarms, that are now part and parcel of Jagdeo’s public defences of it. He never did provide clear and convincing answers to questions on the Wales GtE. But now he is going to put an end to his charade, by not taking any more questions on the project, which means that he is shutting down the sketchy answers that are his trademark. It takes a leader with a particular kind of skillfulness and trickiness to go from darkness to deeper darkness. This is what Guyanese get for US$2B: a weekly mouthful of vile abuse, which is soon to be followed by an impenetrable curtain of silence. This is not a new Jagdeo, but one who is resorting to form. Whenever he is cornered, he finds a hole in which to slink into and lie low until the heat eases up.
We are sorry to inform Vice President and Guyana’s Chief Oil and Gas Minister Jagdeo that the heat is not going to diminish. His own fearful demeanour, his nervous retreat, invites pursuit. He is hiding, he has nothing, he is into his usual costly three-card games with this Wales GtE.
(Jagdeo and the Wales Gas-to-Energy project)
Jan 26, 2025
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