Should the UG Vice Chancellor’s appointment be revoked?

Dear Editor,
Should the appointment of Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), Dr Paloma Mohammed Martin, be revoked?
Paloma Martin was appointed during the caretaker administration and under an interim board. Is that ethical? In addition, given her closeness with the PNC, many see her as a PNC TROJAN HORSE inside the university.
Paloma Martin has been strategically placed to admit and promote PNC-aligned elements in the university. The university has become too politicised with the appointments of Ivelaw Griffith and now Paloma Martin, given their purported affiliation with the PNC.
Paloma Martin’s very first act as VC was to appoint a PNC ideologue as her assistant. Others would be coming. She saw nothing wrong in making such an appointment, but there is a lot wrong with it; it is a racially-tainted appointment.
Paloma Mohammed is the wife of the deceased Afro-centrist Tony Martin, author of the book Race First (1986), a study of Marcus Garvey. The book treats Indians and other ethnic groups as non-existent.
Garvey (1887-1940) was a Jamaican political activist, black nationalist, and the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA).
Paloma Martin’s academic focus defines her ideology and her view on race conflict in Guyana. Like her deceased husband, Paloma Martin is an ardent follower of Garvey. She published a book on him entitled “A Man Called Garvey: The Life and Times of the Great Leader Marcus Garvey” (The Majority Press, 2004). She is not interested in Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan, Ayub Edun, Mahatma Ghandi, Balram Singh Rai, and other great Indian leaders or thinkers.
Mohammed comes across as a front for Black supremacist groups in Guyana. Her recent promotion of Afro-centrist historian Dr Melissa Ifill as Deputy Vice Chancellor is just one example of the gate that has been opened by Paloma for Afro-centrists.
Dr Ifill is a member of a group of black activists and well-known Africanists such as Hugh Tommy Payne, Nigel Hughes, Andaiye, Carl Greenidge, Dr David Hinds and Tacuma Ogunseye, among others. On August 4 2014, the group hosted a Pan Africanist forum in conjunction with the Cuffy 250 Committee of Washington D.C. The forum was to be the theme: ‘The State of Black African Guyana: Time for Renewal and Empowerment’, at the African Cultural Development Association’s AKWAABA (Welcome) Centre at Thomas Lands.
I applaud the group for its Afro-centric and Africanist activities. I hope Indians, Amerindians, Chinese, and Portuguese would hold similar forums on their communities.
Paloma Martin should have made similar appointments to that of Melissa Ifill to balance the Afrocentricity of herself and Ifill. The ethnic biased appointment is sufficient ground for Paloma Martin to tender her resignation. It is also the honourable thing to do, since she was appointed by the Granger-appointed board during a caretaker administration. Such an appointment should have been for an interim board till the new Government was sworn in.
Now that there is a legitimate Government, a new University Council must be convened, and the position must be advertised. Martin could re-apply.

Sincerely,
Sherry Hosein Singh