…for his pension
Moses Nagamootoo is still taking his “turn” every Sunday in the Chronic to sing for his pension. Since he was never really the Prime Minister, but a glorified door mat for Granger, he’s petrified the $2 million monthly pension he was promised might disappear when the PNC ship inevitably ends up on the rocks.
Even though he and Ramjattan have frantically avoided being in front with the kamikaze operatives plunging into the quicksand to defend the PNC’s heavy-handed rigging, you could tell that some serious pushing from behind outed them into some real surreal situations. There was Ramjattan with his yarn about Russian “operatives” coming in with “hacking equipment” to corrupt the March 2 elections! Folks are still scratching their heads about how that would’ve been achieved, seeing that our elections aren’t electronic but “pencil and paper” affairs!
And now comes Nagamootoo insisting that there’s nothing untoward about the 156-day timeline for the recount!! Said he, “That was how it had been after the contentious 1997 elections. Then, after Mrs Janet Jagan was sworn in as President, a re-count of the ballots took place. Called a forensic audit, that process lasted some 97 days after which the court vitiated the results of the elections as having been obtained by fraud.” Now, seriously folks, is this how Nagamootoo thinks he’ll escape the personal sanctions that are about to be slapped on his sorry a55??
Or is it he’s already senile?? First of all, the “forensic audit” of the 1997 elections ballots only came about because the PNC came out into the streets in violent protests to inflict mayhem, arson and beatings on perceived PPP supporters’ persons and property. Ulric Cross conducted the audit on behalf of Caricom, which had been called in and had brokered the Herdmanston Accord, because the PNC cried “fraud”. While Cross did find some “discrepancies” he absolutely and conclusively denied there was any “fraud”.
The audit was in no way connected to the case brought in the courts by PNC surrogate Esther Perreira – claiming that the demand that IDs be used by voters violated the Constitution. Never mind that the PNC, the PPP, the UF and the WPA had all UNANIMOUSLY amended the Representation of the People’s Act to require IDs for voting. It was just the wrong procedure – since they could’ve used that unanimous vote to amend the Constitution to begin with – and which was done afterwards!!
The Court – in the person of Claudette Singh – ruled that the elections was vitiated because of the ID faux pas, NOT from any audit or count.
Your Eyewitness knows that Nagamootoo acquired his law degree in his dotage, but surely, he can’t be this dense?
…for Granger
In the struggle to justify the present rigging, PNC sycophants have been forced to denounce Desmond Hoyte, in every which way, since he’d refused to buckle to the pressures from within to continue with the rigging in 1992. Hamilton Green, of course, was the leader of that particular pack, but was outmanoeuvred by Hoyte, and eventually ousted. Burnham’s two major ideologues of his co-op panacea – Elvin McDavid (for the bureaucracy) and David Granger (for the Disciplined Forces) were also card-carrying members of the Burnhamite squad.
McDavid was banished as Ambassador to Zambia and Granger was made “Security Advisor” whose advice was never sought. Granger has never forgiven Hoyte for choosing Joe Singh ahead of him to become the Head of the Disciplined Forces. But Hoyte was no fool: he knew that Granger would have definitely staged a coup from that perch – because the former had dumped all of Burnham’s socialist cant.
In this Sunday Chronic, one Milton Bruce claimed that Burnham had been planning to banish Desmond Hoyte to China!!
How petty can Granger get?? Wasn’t honouring Green enough??
…for democracy?
Did the Chronic’s bosses miss the irony of publishing Bruce’s letter which also claimed Hoyte “was not astute enough” to maintain the Chronic’s press monopoly in Guyana!!
Ahh…the wet dream of the dictator!!
