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Mar 31, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I read with some hilarity but with great concern an article penned by (I don’t know what political affiliation now) Tacuma Ogunseye on the Walter Rodney issue. At the time he was backpedaling on an earlier interview he had given.
In that interview he stated emphatically that “The WPA has evidence that Rodney was assassinated,”- the evidence and knowledge of what took place that fateful night was fresh in his mind then. However, soon after that interview Ogunseye has suddenly lost his mind – possibly after some threats from his new found friends in the PNC/APNU – he now has a change of heart which caused him to refute claims made in that previous article.
Ogunseye becomes amnesiac and practically denies all previous statements made in the press, he did some fancy footwork with words such as “what he actually said and what was actually reported was not one and the same”- all semantics which was meant to muddle the real facts of this case. So what did he say or what did he mean to say? A set of foolishness that characterizes these shameless people.
The same letter penned in the Stabroek News better explains his vacillating position when he states that the information he gave in that interview “was not for publication.” Why would a person who considered himself a “friend or close associate of Rodney” want his interview to be a private affair? Why the hush-hush on a matter of such great national importance?
Was I a friend of Walter, I’d be the first to shout it from the roof tops as I went about identifying the murderers. I would not be silent on this matter. But, here we have guys who have no shame. In the first place he refuses to testify at the COI that has been set up to look into Walter’s death, now this shocking display. Ogynseye and others whom I would consider staunch – or at least so it seems – members of the WPA have abandoned their leader?
This is a traitorous act which I would like exposed for all it is worth. Walter would be turning in his grave to hear such utterances coming from some of his trusted associates. In like manner Walter’s wife and brother would stand aghast at this 180 degree turnaround from these one-time followers.
Ogunseye was in essence denying any associations ever with Brother Walter; it was as if the name Dr. Walter Rodney did not exist or he was some passing vagrant whose name should be blotted out of the landscape of Guyanese history. This is Preposterous! And this is exactly what Burnham in his plans wanted, a people who would deny that an assassination did take place and the people who carried it out. But try as this shameless bunch would, that is not going to happen, we would get to the bottom of this and the world will know how devious these people are. Rodney was and still is a national hero, a name that would be forever etched in our memory for standing up to PNC thuggery.
Over the years I have come to understand the true meaning of the term “politics make strange bedfellows”. We are now looking on to a classical case of this. These guys are a heartless, shameless bunch of imbeciles who cannot openly say that they are out to sabotage the COI of the dead intellectual.
So, they are doing the Burnham thing when they are faced with the truth, “play that it did not happen. But try as hard and as long as they could, they cannot derail what we as a people all know.
Neil Adams
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