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Jun 07, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
By now every mature citizen, including our high school population, knows that the PPP has defined philosophical positions with pellucid explanatory language on Guyana. We will elaborate on just a few of these delineations. We begin with Parliament. For the people in the PPP leadership the 10th Parliament is an opposition institution.
Completely removed from the understanding of the PPP is the concept of the Guyana Parliament. Prior to 2011, when the PPP had a majority in Parliament, there was a national institution named the Guyana Parliament. After APNU and AFC won a combined electoral majority, this national institution now became an opposition structure. The Guyana Parliament then lost its patriotic, nationalist life.
An Act of Parliament, then, is an act of the opposition. Through a process that can only be defined as dialectical madness, the PPP in the same breath says the Guyana Government is a national institution even though the leaders of the PPP form the Government of Guyana. It is left up to a magician, not a philosopher or a genius to explain to Guyanese how Parliament is an opposition entity but the Government of Guyana is a national formation.
So what has been playing out since the general elections in 2011 is the PPP demonstration of politics as the PPP understands it. There is no such thing as the PPP in Government. The government is beyond the PPP and encompasses the national ethos. On the contrary, the elected Parliament is a narrow body that caters for opposition interests only.
This is where the danger lies in this country and Guyanese seems helpless to stop the inexorably drift to disaster. The people of this land seem doomed to repeat the tragedies that have haunted civilization the past two thousand years. Anyone with a modicum of training in history in Guyana ought to know that the politics of power, lust and race have undermined the fabric and physiology of Guyana since self-government in the fifties. Nothing has changed since then.
Only a fool or someone so obsessed with racial domination or someone completely overtaken with infatuation with the PPP cannot see that at the heart of the division in today’s Guyana is power lust. And you don’t have to involve yourself in any complex investigation to see it. Perhaps in its most graphic form, it is the attitude of the ruling party to local government reform.
This fixation with control by the PPP is a pathologically dangerous passion that sooner or later will bring tragedy.
It is utter depravity of the worse kind that a nation can accept that the six members of the Local Government Commission must be appointed by the President and Government. But here is where the PPP is a more dangerous animal than anything this country has seen in its history.
Each time the PPP refers to the Government or the Minister, read that to mean a PPP member. I saw this moral anarchy and legal monstrosity for myself when I sat on the UG Council. The University of Guyana Act says that the Minister of Education selects a representative from the Amerindian, legal and medical communities, farmers’ associations and women’s groups that in the Minister’s estimation are representative of such constituencies.
In every instance, without exception, that representative is a Guyanese with a PPP membership card. So the Government, which is above politics and embodies the national ethos, inevitably ends up being a partisan organization by the choices of persons the Government selects to administer the State.
On the UG Council, the representatives of all those stakeholders cited above are PPP members – seven in all.
The dialectical madness referred to above comes in when persons who serve the State have a non-PPP background and therefore cannot be allowed to serve. In other words, you are only a Guyanese when you are a PPP member.
Here is what Roger Luncheon (the only witness Mr. Jagdeo brought to testify in his libel writ against me) told the court in response to a question put to him about Justice James Bovell-Drakes.
He said President Jagdeo opposed the appointment of Mr. Bovell-Drakes because he was once associated with a political organization. Dr. Luncheon didn’t name the entity but the judge in his youthful days was head of the PNC youth arm. While the President did this, the same President approved of a known PPP person to fill a vacancy in the Court of Appeal. In other words, Bovell-Drakes did not qualify to be Guyanese because he wasn’t a PPP member.
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