…some a dem a bahl!
The reaction by the PNC and the AFC to the Opposition Leader’s call on Thursday for a vote of no-confidence in the government was something to behold!! “Some a dem a halla and some a dem a bahl”!! Running around like chickens without heads, the leaders shoehorned themselves into PNC Chief Whip, Amna Ally’s house that night – when, judging by her informal apparel, she’d clearly retired for the evening. Of course, they all gave broad smiles for the posed pic to tell the world they had “unity”!!
But why in the world would there be the need to stress “unity” if there weren’t concerns that Jagdeo’s call which signalled the PPP’s massive victory at the LGE had convinced some of their MP’s to jump their sinking ship?? But the biggest giveaway of the panic that had seized the PNC and AFC like a cold and clammy hand of doom was their abrupt cancellation of the sitting of the National Assembly on Friday.
If they were so certain of their one-seat majority, why not take a chance on the PPP suddenly calling for a division on some matter on the floor? Was it because Trotman had departed for London to sell our greenheart? (Hope he gets a better deal than he did on oil!!) But with his absence, while the vote on both sides would be tied 32-32… they could still count on their Speaker Bartland Scotland using his casting vote to “maintain the status quo” and keep them in office, no?
Naah…they just couldn’t count on all their troops – especially from coalition partners – keeping the faith!! Take the AFC. They know they were given Larwah (shafted) on the promises of the Cummingsburg Accord. While Nagamootoo and Ramjattan might be willing to keep on taking the shafting because of the grease of mega-salaries and perks, some of the others have definitely been chomping at the bits.
Take that AFC MP from Berbice – the lawyer one. He’s definitely being harassed by the police – even though he’s nowhere as scatologically voluble as his colleague Crawford! He’s called out Nagamootoo and Ramjattan on several occasions in letters to the press for not getting the police off his back. What does he have to lose if he falls ill on voting day? He knows his name is worse than mud – even that “caddy” from the 63 Beach – in Berbice anyways!!
Some folks think the weak links that’ll give way might be from the WPA camp, since they’ve been most vociferous about their peripherilsation by the PNC – but not your Eyewitness.
These fellas are ideologues for the PNC’s constituency and will swallow all their humiliations.
“For the cause”!
…at reporters!
If all Guyana – here and in the diaspora – were ashamed of those firemen looting the luggage of the crashed Fly Jamaica Jet, the behaviour of the PNC and AFC leaders at the Press Conference they called at Congress Place should cause them even more shame and disgrace. Those firemen, after all, had the excuse of “poverty” that’s usually trotted out by our bleeding hearts, don’t they?
But what excuse – especially in the climate created by the Saudi’s murder of the journalist Khassoghi – does the PNC and AFC leaders have for siccing their hooligan supporters at their press conference?? This is a clear signal that Nagamootoo and Ramjattan are now so desperate to survive under the skirt of the PNC that they’re willing to condone the type of hostile PNC behaviour that culminated in one of their supporters stabbing Father Darke, back in the day.
Nagamoottoo, especially, should hang his head in shame, since he likes to boast of his days in journalism.
…some a dem a lie to themselves!
At the aforementioned Press Conference, Ramjattan insisted the AFC wasn’t wiped out at the last LGE! Maybe if he keeps on repeating this lie, even he may begin to believe it!!
“There are none so blind as those who will not see”!!
