…in Coalition Government
Your Eyewitness knew this day had to come the moment the PNC-led APNU traduced the prenup agreement (otherwise known as the Cummingsburg Accord) right after the elections. And Nagamootoo and Ramjattan not only went along, but asserted all was well in the marriage. So that’s why your Eyewitness wasn’t surprised to see the two AFC leaders sitting with downcast eyes at the PNC Congress as the Burnham legacy was declared alive and well. While over in Essequibo, a PNC activist-ranger slapped AFC’s Regional Councillor Naitram, who was his functional superior.
The honeymoon between the PNC-led APNU and the AFC is well and truly over. But did it have to be so clichéd, after the history of the PNC’s previous marriage to a minor party (UF) so as to oust the PPP? And while Ramjattan was in short pants at the time, from the boasts of Nagamootoo about his “50-year” history in the PPP, he had to’ve had personal experience of the unsavoury treatment meted out to the UF. As a lieutenant in Burnham’s new army, now President Granger was also there.
While the leader of the UF, Peter D’Aguiar had received the plum post of Finance Minister after the coalition won, his role was eviscerated of all power. He at least had the “testicular perspicacity” to walk out. Sadly, the key members of his party didn’t follow him since they’d been bought out. Is this what’s keeping Nagamootoo and Ramjattan from walking out of the marriage? Or is it they fear they won’t be able to support themselves outside the marriage? The poor dears.
They say a “picture’s worth a thousand words”. But the picture of President Granger, Robert Corbin and all the other PNC officials grinning widely at something said from the stage while across the aisle, Nagamootoo looks aghast and Ramjattan grimaced spoke volumes. Burnham’s legacy was probably being bigged up – the same Burnham who Nagamootoo swore for decades had “sicced” the House of Israel on him!
And we come to the slapping of Naitram – the AFC Essequibo executive who’d stripped to the buff while protesting against the PPP – to get the coalition elected. Those who saw what Naitram exposed know the sacrifice that fella made for his party! They say when the wife doesn’t stand up to the bullying husband, it’s often “for the children”. So what does she do when the abuser starts off on the children? Stay quiet and see the violence spread to all the other children? C’mon Nagamootoo and Ramjattan!
Prezzie’s speech to his party’s Congress confirmed what was long suspected, but fervently denied – the PNC had never turned over a new leaf.
Like Freddie Kruger, the PNC’s back!
…on the nation
What can you call the seemingly never-ending litany of corrupt acts that’re being inflicted on the Guyanese nation, but “domestic violence”? After all, we were promised that Governments are supposed to govern for the welfare of “all the people” – acting like heads of the family, so to speak. Now you can have the abuse of physical violence – like the whupping just inflicted on the AFC’s Naitram – but contrary to the received wisdom, there’s psychological violence – which can be worse.
And there is psychological violence when a government treats the citizenry as if they are retarded. Although your Eyewitness knows it won’t be easy, Dear Readers, take a look at the latest revelations from the “PharmaBondgate”. You don’t have money to build a better prison, but you can spend $450 million for a bottom house in Albouystown? How can the lease be signed for “office space” and simultaneously be declared “PAHO compliant” to store pharmaceuticals?
But sadly nothing’s gonna be done, because like the stereotypical abused victims, we’ll grin and bear it.
…on Georgetown
And what else but domestic violence is it when the AFC’s man in City Hall – the Deputy Mayor to boot! –- is just pi55ing in the wind on the ParkingMeterGate?
