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The real reason for the Mormons being expelled
Dear Editor,
The recent sabre rattling by the Jagdeo regime involving the Mormons in Guyana has nothing to do with persons violating the country’s immigration laws, but has everything to do with the 2011 elections.
A careful study of the level of the PPP’s support in general elections since 1992 would reveal ever declining numbers for the PPP.
Continued emigration from Guyana in large numbers together with increasing voter apathy has caused the PPP’s core support to not be as reliable as it once was.
What the figures reveal however, particularly those from the last election is that there has been increasing support for the PPP among Amerindians and it was this support which won the last election for the PPP.
This was due in large part to the work of Carolyn Rodrigues “as the then Minister of Amerindian Affairs. She understood that political support from the Amerindians could be bought with a school here, a health centre there, an outboard motor here or a tractor there. The present incumbent is not as gifted as Ms. Rodrigues and may have messed things up a bit.
This caused Jagdeo at the recent Amerindian conference to lament that Government was not doing enough to improve the lot of the Amerindians.
The PNC understands this but does not have funds to purchase political support from the Amerindians. Enter the Mormons. The PNCR, under the guise of ‘a social partnership’ induced the Mormons to provide social services particularly in Amerindian communities as a means of purchasing political capital.
Whether or not the Mormons were unwitting participants remain unclear.
The point is, however, that the PPP did not like this encroachment into what they perceive to be their political territory which could result in the tipping of the delicate balance of power which the Amerindian vote holds.
So into the fray rides Clement Rohee on a bowlegged jackass and arrests the Mormon Missionaries ostensibly for violating immigration laws, but precisely for the sole purpose of getting rid of those Mormons who had built up relationships in the PPP’s new constituency and which in the party’s thinking may, jeopardize their support in 2011.
The message to the Mormons is clear – do not assist the PNCR even if it be in the name of God.
Bibi K. Nandram
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