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Jun 10, 2014 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
At the PNC’s Third Biennial Congress of August 22-26 of 1979, Prime Minister Forbes Burnham addressing delegates on the WPA threat told them: “While we number thousands, they number at most a few hundreds. Therefore, we should be in a position to have a proper intelligence service which I shall discuss with you at a group level.” He continued: “We have already infiltrated them, so much that the Dr Walter Rodney does not sleep in the same place any two nights in succession …, but let him know that walls have ears where the People’s National Congress is concerned.”
Burnham had charged his PNC members then to be vigilant. “We must be suspicious and all details must be reported. Up to now I would say that about 75 per cent of the WPA (makeup) consists of PNC members, I do not want any more. But that 75 per cent there, plus others, must be reporting from time to time and we must ferret these mice out of their holes.”
Now compare where those WPA Trojan mice who Mr. Burnham wanted out of their holes have now become so strategically ensconced within the same PNC’s woodwork. By courtesy of the PNC current leader’s significantly enhanced Nigerian military training and as a former GDF Brigadier General, he may yet prove himself wiser than the PNC Founder-Leader who unnecessarily distrusted the WPA.
Will the WPA “mice” rise above Burnhamite suspicion or will they attempt to bell the “peaceful napping
cat” (PNC)? Can the latter’s external re-stamped certificate transform them all as firm believers of democracy and effectively validate them as vegetarian cool cats practicing yoga?
It is almost certain that Dr Rupert Roopnaraine will become the WPA’s heroic “animal” sacrifice after all the intrigue and evidence for the breakdown of democracy under the PNC is revealed at the Rodney
Commission of Inquiry (RCOI).
The WPA stalwart sincerely believes he is the next Prime Minister-in-waiting symbolically representing Indo-Guyanese authenticity in any future APNU government. Like British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s legendary faux pas of peaceful accommodation with Adolf Hitler before the Germans launched World War II, Dr Roopnaraine feels cleansed he has made peace in his public disclosure that the WPA was amassing weaponry. But absolutely no other WPA activist has validated this information. Even during Mr. Eusi Kwayana’s tailored testimony at the RCOI, he did not volunteer confirmation, neither did anyone ask him about it.
How significant is this irony that he was inside/outside Dr Rodney’s trusted circle to stop it, but remains still a mystery.
For confirmation of Dr Roopnaraine’s authentic championship of the Indo-Guyanese cultural, political and Human Rights existence and resolution of their many problems, it is more important by whom and how he is anyhow perceived to be credible. The GHRA is yet to become a friend to pursue or uphold Indo-Guyanese human rights hampered by the former group’s own racial biases.
For Indo-Guyanese, Dr Roopnaraine has always been missing in action. But this is precisely what makes him a hero within the creolized company where he is entombed. How astute anyone can be is obviously evaluated by such intelligence which solicits and recruits their personal bodyguard while they are in police custody at any police station!
That selected police “bodyguard” Mr. Robert Allan Gates, has now cleansed his soul and redeemed himself by informing the RCOI that he was a double agent working both for Dr Roopnaraine’s protection, and the state under the PNC government.
The undercover policeman has revealed that he actively procured Dr Walter Rodney’s personal bodyguard “Bunny” to spy on the murdered WPA leader, and he also actively assisted Dr Roopnaraine in the WPA arms buildup. Why no WPA personnel have stepped forward to confirm Dr Roopnaraine is so far puzzling. They witness truckloads of dirt heaped onto one of their own, albeit further overwhelming his WPA credibility and are reluctant to come to the brother’s aid.
Was his bodyguard’s open confession that the PNC government also ordered him to kill Dr Roopnaraine the last straw? Not at all. Dr Roopnaraine himself has already given media reassurances it is of no consequence to either himself or the WPA remaining under APNU’s Brigadier General’s supervisory orders.
It is a tough call whether Dr Roopnaraine is extremely naïve, possibly fuelled by personal greed or blind ambition, a riddle, or all of the above. Whether he succeeds in disproving he is not Guyana’s first likely Don Quixote Prime Minister… certainly not representing anything authentically Indian without a doubt, remains to be seen.
But like all politicians he must be given credit for his tremendous personal sacrifices, as he has not promised to build a bridge where there is no river as Nikita Khrushchev has observed of politicians. A likeable and talented Shakespearean scholar, he was once attached to the prestigious New York Columbia University from where he was recruited by Dr Rodney. The recruit was also without any political baggage, and in the 1980s when the WPA was a force of some effectiveness in Georgetown, he was to succeed Dr Rodney as leader. But it was never to be. The WPA became a spent force and he became of little consequence.
Should the AFC and APNU agree to unite tomorrow by way of a coalition, everyone knows who ‘Abna Babna’ will not be serving any English tea as they go through the door.
That a talented WPA academic politician prefers to daily remain as dangling sun-drying bait affixed to the PNC fishing hook completely unable to catch anything, including himself, is pitiful.
Sultan Mohamed
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