Dear Editor,
I refer to a letter from Mr Nigel Westmass, whom I do not know. However, I do have a lot of respect for his academic writings. Mr Westmass must not assume what he does not know. I just want to make it absolutely clear, I Sasenarine Singh do know Tacuma Ogunseye. I was in the room at the JFK Library in Georgetown in the early 1990’s, in front of political leaders and US Embassy officials at the time, when Tacuma made the call to import Afro-Guyanese from the Caribbean islands into Guyana as a means to suppress the electoral advantage of the East Indians. Does such a person come across as someone who believes in multi-racial unity? Tacuma is no saint as Mr Westmass, his WPA colleague is attempting to paint him, he is actually a very racist and violent person and he more than anyone else knows what he preached on Buxton Line Top to the domestic terrorist of Guyana who was driving fear throughout the land at that time.
Secondly, Tacuma is no Eusi Kwayana, and such a thought is nothing but wishful thinking. But isn’t it hypocritical to ask me to take the high road in the debate with Tacuma, when the person who really needed to take the high road was Tacuma. Isn’t it Tacuma with his baseless comments, who used low-life and untruthful propaganda generated by Kwame Mckoy to attack me, because I exposed his financial skulduggery at SARU? How can a PNC/WPA/APNU man use PPP propaganda to advance his argument? Can we not see the contradictions and confusion in Tacuma’s mind? But this just exposed the desperation of Tacuma. Is Tacuma prepared to do anything to protect his $8 million salary? In his quest for easy gold coins, none of what Tacuma said so far was the truth, so how can he be an honest person?
It is unfortunate that Mr Westmass had to sully his character to come to the defence of this racist individual. Tacuma cannot want to go to crab march and expect the skeletons in his closets not to be exposed. I know much more stuff on Tacuma that I have chosen at this time to hold fire on. Out of respect for Mr Westmass, I will take the high road and make this my last letter on this issue, for now.
Not everyone will tolerate the infantile rant and raving of Tacuma, he must grow up and learn to debate on issues and ideas. He must also know that many people have his sordid history well documented, so he should be careful what he says in future and focus on his work. Hopefully he recovers a donkey cart for the Government soon. So far his professional incompetence continues to bungle the work of SARU at a great loss to the taxpayers. But that one is on the Granger administration.
Sincerely,
Sasenarine Singh
