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May 01, 2024 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column
Kaieteur News – Each new day in this country brings new revelations about the Guyana tragedy. Each new development confirms the growing encyclopedia of mental and political deficits that haunt this nation. I have encountered my share from the stout defenders of the PNC; I am better for it. There have been past flurries of from the sturdy lads and lasses in the PPP; more wisdom comes. Recently, the bad dogs in the PPP-from the top down-have set their sights and howled and lunged to denigrate and diminish, strengthening results. There must be something being done right, for all this attention, all the acrimonies, the vats of acids that scorch them more than they do to me. Here is a textbook case.
For 25 years and counting, the PPP Government and PNC Government, the leaders and players in both, have been written about. I commended, I condemned. What started out small has grown in strength. The usual tirades and diatribes from cornermen and human cash vacuums (suckers) in both groups were quick to denounce. Mission accomplished. Since the arrival of oil, I have upped the ante. When the prosperity and destiny of poor citizens, and from whose roots from I hail, reel under the threatening and tricky, then it meant more labours from me. There are some likeminded Guyanese in this struggle for palpable pieces, the things tangible, but neither of which has been seen nor sensed. I wish there were more citizens dedicated to a genuine Guyanese vision than the many that kiss the feet of Exxon (Woods, Routledge, et al) for a pat on the cheek, and whatever other considerations arranged.
Because Bharrat Jagdeo is the head, I deal directly with him. No second stringers. No night crawlers. Because Jagdeo has been how he has been: timid and fearful, cowardly and cowering, the spotlight has to be beamed on his nervous countenance, his trembling postures, his distinguishing impotency. Again and again, I say this for all to absorb, digest: VP Jagdeo does what I interpret to be his very best for Guyanese (for Guyanese), then I am his defender to the death. A real advocate, and not one fueled by cash or contract or cushy job. I would be his shield for free because he has tried, he has sacrificed, he has represented with his all. This is where the problems begin; they are many and heavy.
Jagdeo has not even tried. He has tried tricks and what is tawdry on Guyanese; what titillates his crowd. Jagdeo has not fought the good fight for Guyanese with this oil. He has fled and evaded and vacillated and obfuscated. Clumsily. When Jagdeo has not obscured, he has been outrageous. A former president pleased to slither where even ordinary citizens recoil from going. I pointed to these weaknesses repeatedly, and his wraths and that of his incentivized people, knew no limits. Week after week in his press conferences, and for several running, Bharrat Jagdeo bared his fangs and unsheathed his claws. Wall Street work. Credentials. Local presence. Local practices. Religious pursuits. And then some more. The record will show that I took all and sundry on the chin and rolled with what came. The characteristic nastiness of the man. The ugly deformity of the public man, this leader imprisoned in his web of deceptions, subterfuges, and disingenuousness. The record will show that I have never (never) slandered Bharrat Jagdeo, never accused him, never fabricated and falsified anything about him. I did not reply in kind to the vile attacks. Jagdeo launched his dirty war with dirtier weapons while surrounded by the dirtiest people. I held my fire. There are some lines I will not cross, not even for a maligner, sick character, like Bharrat Jagdeo. But I did take him to task with knotted whips and the piercing prongs of words that have caused untold distress in him and his people. Don’t, buster. Mess with the wrong man and unharnessed energy is unleashed. But within the bounds of honesty and decency. The record will so confirm. His people cry buckets.
In the strongest and sharpest permissible language, Jagdeo has been flayed. Stripped. Exposed. Now his people cry like babies. Too much. Too tuff. These ‘muddahs’ cry for their baby Barry. Bharrat – stand up and take medicine like a man. The dirty war began with him. Truth and standards are my weapons. I want none other. I identify authentic oil stewardship and challenge Jagdeo not to be a patsy and pushover for Alistair Routledge and other jackbooted members of Exxon’s master race. Jagdeo stands for Guyana, and I stand with him. How many Guyanese are they going to kill? How many turncoat Guyanese are they going to pay slyly to kill conscientious, patriotic republican citizens in different ways, by other means? I know of those, too, ‘Mistah Jagdeo’. Stop pressing thine face into the ground on which Exxon defecates. And to that Palace Guard of Guyanese brothers in the PPP and PNC, this I say: desist from eating the filth and drinking from the chamber pot that Exxon dumps on thine mouths opened to absorb such. This land is mine. This oil is ours. And from it, every Guyanese must know true prosperity and a lasting destiny. That is the battle to be fought. This is where Jagdeo should be. Not tangling with me. Then crying like a baby when national richness is under attack. To all Guyanese I say: be men for the national cause. Stop whining. Stop sniffling. Stop crying. Stop being either Alistair Routlegde’s or Jagdeo’s mice.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)
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