…Sanction Man
“Mout’ open and story jump out!” Well, what’d you know? After doing their darndest to support the Sanctioned fella – who graduated from sharing out goodies using stolen tax money to politics – the PNC has woken up to the truth that there’s no honour among thieves!! There’s also no difference between tax thief and elections thief…and YOU know, Dear Reader, who’s who!! Your Eyewitness, of course, is referring to the LOO – Aubrey Norton – complaining at a campaign meet in Ithaca that Sanction Man’s “poaching” PNC’s supporters!! Ithaca being one of PNC’s happy stomping grounds in West Berbice!
Said Norton to the pitifully small gathering: “I hold no brief for Mohamed because he is more in our constituency than any other one. So, I get the impression sometimes he is working for the PPP, but I’m watching; I’m not commenting yet. I’m watching,” Now, two things struck your Eyewitness from that snippet. Firstly, after gloating for weeks that Sanction Man was feasting on PPP’s support base, Norton’s now realised he’s been suckling a serpent!! “All smart fly does land on cow’s backside!!” said Granny!!
Your Eyewitness, however, is quite taken aback that he took THIS LONG to figure out Sanction Man was giving the PNC “blow” with their base!! If he hadn’t seen all the reports of the composition of Sanction Man’s Nomination Day crowd and other meetings – being busy at Bam Bam Alley, and all!! – surely lieutenants like Campbell would’ve reported to him?? While he might’ve scoffed that Sanction Man was “buying votes” with his ill-gotten gains, isn’t that what the PNC did for decades?? Remember Volda’s declaration on who’ll get jobs under the PNC – “I only have PNC friends and families?”
Now, Sanction Man must’ve really gotten Norton’s goat because in using the term “I hold no brief for Mohamed”, he’s clearly “throwing talk” at the fella who’s been mocked as “slack buckta”!! “Bukta”, of course, being our local slang for “brief”!! Ouch!! So the question, Whatcha gonna do ‘bout it?”, arises to Norton about Sanction Man’s ungratefulness! Sadly, “Ah gon watch he!!” That’s right!! Every time Sanction Man send in Doggy and Fatta to hive off more supporters – even if it means gun butting them at the sacred Square of the Revolution! – Norton gon watch he!!
Ahh…how tame has the Terror of Regent Street become!! Sadly, he’s never quite recovered his mojo after Hoyte dismissed him as his “creature”!! And maybe that’s why he drowns his sorrow at Bam Bam Alley!! Anyhow, he gotta come up with some kinda strategy since with his erstwhile allies in the AFC and other breakaway elements going into the elections separately, his base is being whittled away – even without the PPP’s full-court press!!
…the Disciplined Forces vote
Some in the Opposition – in the person of the LOO Norton – have criticised Prezzie and the PPP for courting votes from the Disciplined Services. Now this is just a variant of Black Pudding Man’s argument that African Guyanese are bonded to the PNC and not only they shouldn’t be courted, they shouldn’t even voluntarily support any other party since that’ll make them “BT Lickers”!! The Disciplined Forces, of course, are preponderately staffed with African Guyanese and when their votes – taken a week before the rest of us – used to be counted and announced separately, the PNC would routinely garner 90%!!
But Prezzie addressed the charge frontally at a PPP rally in Bartica – an old PNC bastion. In effect he asked whether Disciplined Forces personnel – Army, Police, prison personnel and fire services – aren’t Guyanese?? Do they also not have interests they want the Government to satisfy?? If other Guyanese could be encouraged through programmes, why not the Disciplined Forces??
And there’s almost TWELVE THOUSAND of them!!
