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I return to the topic of Bharrat Jagdeo having no moral authority or integrity to speak to or condemn anybody on matters of governance and/or discrimination.
His is arguably the record of being the most divisive and brutish leader this country has ever seen in post-independence. Anywhere his presence is there is a shroud of discrimination, corruption, marginalisation and political wickedness hovering over. His is the quest to divide this nation and place some of us on our knees.
Jagdeo represents all that is bad and undesirable for good governance and the efforts of a people to forge a unitary and peaceful society.
What this nation is witnessing is a studied programme to economically disenfranchise and deny a people their political and civic representation in the national arena which will deprive them of efforts at economic self-determination and empowerment. These are characteristics of genocide as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
His reference to meeting with the Amerindian community is convenient, divisive and with no regard for their historical experiences and centuries of struggle for self-determination. And even in the current context where he claims that he is meeting, he seeks to exclude those who would assert their right to self-determination, to equitably and equally benefit from the nation’s resources which are also theirs. The First Peoples are being forced into a situation where they feel compelled to engage and tolerate the violation of their rights in the ‘Jagdeo’s democracy.’
In the African community he shows similar disregard for the people’s elected representatives.
He openly flaunts his ignorance or contempt for the history of others, their experiences of slavery- their denial of rights and dignity- and visceral reaction to any attempt to trample what their ancestors fought against for centuries.
The disrespect he shows to Amerindian and African Guyanese he will not tolerate from any leader, social group or otherwise doing to the East Indian community who he sees as his voting farm to use at his will, including to divide the desire of the majority of Guyanese to live in racial harmony.
All Guyanese, by and large, want to live in peace and harmony with their neighbour. They want to see communities looking good. They want to see equal opportunities. They want to move around this country without seeing hunger, poverty and squalor in the next yard or a village away from them. They want to see Guyana being prosperous, the people as a whole. The only hindrance to all this is Jagdeo and the evil that dwells within him.
It is Jagdeo and a few who want a hierarchy and a few others to get a little picking.
We must reject him lest we all perish or drown in the evil that he is unleashing on this nation. Whereas some may be misguided to believe his evil doings are working in their favour, let them take note that history shows that this too is just a matter of time. Evil always collapses. It is only a matter of time.
There are more good people across the divide than the few Jagdeo is able to co-opt in the execution of his vindictiveness. We must always be wary that not everyone is on his side. Good always triumphs evil and it is only a matter of time before the Jagdeo evil empire crumbles too. To everything there is a season and time.
