Bharrat Jagdeo enters the realm of propaganda madness

AUGUST 21, 2015 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER FEATURES / COLUMNISTS, FREDDIE KISSOON

They say if you tell a lie often it will come to be accepted as truth. That can only happen, of course, if the lies go unchallenged. There are sufficient researchers in the employ of the government to confront the ocean of blatant lies by the PPP that will fill the air in Parliament. The propaganda will come with tsunami force. If not exposed, people can believe the Jagdeo cabal. Mr. Jagdeo is quoted as saying that the APNU-AFC administration has started out on the wrong footing. Jagdeo contends that the Minister of Business should not be the chairman of GO-Invest, because he is the Minister in charge of GO-Invest. Jagdeo went on to say that under his presidency, he appointed a technical head of GO-Invest. Do the people of Guyana know who the technical head of GO-Invest during the reign of Bharrat Jagdeo was? Brace yourself for Jagdeo’s entry into the kingdom of propaganda madness. It was Kellawan Lall. I knew Mr. Lall when we were young. At that time, he lived at the residence of the Jagans. I may be wrong and if I am I apologize, but I don’t think in those days Mr. Lall had the required five CXC with the required English and Mathematics subjects. He went to Cuba on those short ideological study programmes that most PPP second and third tier leaders were sent on. Lall worked at the PPP’s newspaper, the Mirror. That was his employment when the PPP came to power in 1992. What the APNU-AFC parliamentarians need to do is ask Mr. Jagdeo what was technical in the Lall chairmanship of GO-Invest. What the press should do is ask Jagdeo to explain the criterion for Lall’s technical appointment at GO-Invest. Now interestingly, when Lall held the GO-Invest chairmanship, he was President Jagdeo’s employee at the Office of the President. I doubt Mr. Jagdeo is familiar with the philosophical concepts of “form” and “content.” “Content is also referred to as “substance.” “Substance” remains constant and can take many forms. Mr. Jagdeo’s appointment of Lall at GO-Invest is a classical example of the difference between form and content. Mr. Jagdeo is right. The Minister of Finance during Jagdeo’s presidency was not the chairman of GO-Invest, but it was a Jagdeo underling that Jagdeo was boss of. Lall existed in name only. The real boss of GO-Invest was President Jagdeo. Without being insulting to Kellawan Lall, there was nothing technical about his role at GO-Invest, he was not a technically trained man and he was not independent of Mr. Jagdeo while he, Lall, was chairman of GO-Invest There is a mountain of propagandistic depravities and blatant lies like the technical chairman of GO-Invest that the Parliament and the people of Guyana can expect from not only Jagdeo, but many of the troglodytes who controlled power under the PPP rule from 1992. One must at all times remember that people like Rohee, Teixeira and Luncheon have been shaping policies and making appointments for twenty-three years. All three were Senior Cabinet members since 1992. It follows then that these three persons would hardly be in a position to criticize any member of a new government that has been in existence for a mere three months, but they will. Take ethnic motive behind termination of employment. This has now become a sermon of the PPP. But is the PPP in any moral position to even speak just one word about that? How Caricom remained silent on what took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Customs and Excise after 1992 remains a mystery. If ever the term ethnic cleansing in employment was applicable to the West Indies, it was under the Cheddi Jagan regime after 1992. There was the comical but real life situation in which African Guyanese were dismissed from a certain Guyana embassy and a lady by the name of Singh was retained. It came as a psychological jolt when on meeting Ms. Singh, the ethnic cleanser saw that she was African-Guyanese. Of course she was removed shortly after. Every depravity, immorality, debauchery, illegality committed by the twenty-three year-old hegemony of the PPP Government, when exposed by the new APNU-AFC administration and the media, will be met with the automatic response – “I don’t know anything about that.” Mr. Jagdeo used those identical words when asked about the transformers that provide electricity to his Pradoville 2 home. One of the most horrendous acts of this 23-year-old machine was Bibi Shadick’s appointment as Pro-Chancellor of UG. Of course, no one from the PPP leadership knows how she got there.