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Jan 27, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
The East Indian people of Guyana must know that the PPP’s tentacles that have strangulated them for decades have worked through jumbie umbrellas. I am referring to front groups. This has been an invention of Cheddi Jagan since the fifties.
Jagan himself, who never owned an inch of rice land, was at one time President of the Rice Producers’ Association (see page 185, “The West on Trial”, Seven Seas Books, East Germany, 1972). From thereon, the PPP has fronted itself to the Indian population in countless forms. Some of the shapes include, the Guyana Peace Council, the Maha Sabha, the Dharmic Sabha, GAWU, East German-Guyana Friendship Society, Sawmill Workers’ Union, and Guyana Union of Journalists.
The latest addition is the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC). Last year this group hosted a night of reflection for the victims of the Lusignan massacre. It will do so this year. Why this body and not the PPP when during the function, the PPP bigwigs were the people who did the talking and will be the featured speakers this year?
The explanation could be that the mere mention of the name PPP may get the villagers annoyed and they may not turn up. After seventeen years of failure on the crime front, the PPP’s name does not travel well in Guyana. To avoid any embarrassment in terms of crowd attendance, the PPP prefers the IAC to be the umbrella.
The entire village of Lusignan should ask itself what did the PPP Government do for this country in terms of crime reduction for the seventeen years it has been in power. The East Indians of Lusignan cannot be so short-sighted, blind and masochistic that they do not know that when they pack their bodies onto the Lusignan tarmac, they are reducing themselves to robots in the eyes of the politicians from the PPP that have so manipulated them.
Are the people of Lusignan that foolish that they cannot see that when you pour out your support for a government that has not performed and that government is armed with the knowledge that you are stupid and you will give it your support again that it will not be afraid or fearful of not performing because it knows it will always be in power?
If the East Indians of Lusignan are reading this column, I ask them to ask themselves one fundamental question – what has changed in Guyana that will prevent another massacre as what has taken place in Lusignan, Lindo Creek and Bartica?
Here is my answer. On Friday afternoon, I had my wife and my mother-in-law in the car approaching home. As I came towards the junction of the Railway Embankment and UG Access Road, I saw a confrontation between two minibus drivers. It was nasty and violent. I never saw such a large cutlass in my life. Death was nearby.
As one driver ran away from the cutlass blows, the conductor from another bus was pelting the cutlass-holder with huge stones. Indeed death was nearby.
The story was over drunk driving. I left my family in the car and went right between the warring parties and asked them to put their weapons down.
They did so. I advised both parties to let the police settle the matter. I asked both drivers to separate themselves by a long distance while I get the police. I live at Turkeyen so I have the number of Sparendaam Police station in my cell phone book. That number was engaged for half an hour. I tried getting on to 911. I eventually made contact. I requested that they send ranks from Sparendaam. Fifteen minutes after no police arrived, I got through to Sparendaam. Guess what? The person who answered 911 never made contact with Sparendaam.
Now brace yourself for the worst form of incompetence on the part of a government. During the crime spree on the lower East coast, 2002-2004, only one phone was available in each station for the public to get through. I did a column in 2003 lamenting the lack of multiple phones at police stations.
There has been no change since I penned that article. What the East Indians of Lusignan should ask Mr. Jagdeo, Robert Persaud, Donald Ramotar and company as they garland and hug them on the tarmac is why the PPP Government does not want foreign officers from the UK to be based in Guyana?
I call upon the Indians of Lusignan to respect themselves, and bestow some dignity on your character. Are you still indentured servants?
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