A dossier on the scandals and corruption of the PPP dictatorship

Oct 08, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0 Comments

You can always count on the PPP to produce both asininity and laughter. The latest outburst is Bharrat Jagdeo’s intention to compile a dossier on 25 scandals of the APNU+AFC Government. Now, nothing is wrong with such a compilation but Jagdeo should not do it. He has no moral, ethical and philosophical authority to do it.          If the PPP intends to compile an enumeration of the financial conspiracies of the 17-month-old Coalition regime then it should pay one of those UG graduates who is still waiting to be employed.
In that case it would have more credibility.

Bharrat Jagdeo, Clement Rohee, Donald Ramotar, Roger Luncheon, Gail Teixeira, Ashni Singh, Irfaan Ali, Priya Manickchand and company are politically alive today because an inept, mediocre, visionless government is keeping them going. Based on the forensic audits, Jagdeo, Rohee, Manickchand and others should be in deep, legal trouble.
But they are allowed space to perambulate the territory of Guyana sprouting propagandistic poison. In no other country in the world would such a nasty regime be allowed the latitude the present PPP leadership is given by an incompetent APNU-AFC regime.

Jagdeo is compiling a dossier on financial corruption. There is also a form of corruption called moral depravity. Both types of corruption permeated the life of the administration of Jagdeo and Ramotar. Let’s examine the dossier on Jagdeo for which he has maintained a fantastic silence. Why a president would tell his nation he is legally married yet at the same time refused repeated requests by his common-law wife to legalise the union?
Ms. Varshnie Singh accused Jagdeo, when he was President, of mistreating her. She had to seek refuge in the generosity of B.K. whom I was told was very generous indeed in a very all embracing sense of the word. Can Jagdeo tell us about the disappearance of spy equipment that the police confiscated from Roger Khan and which was only sold to governments by its US manufacturers? Evidence shows it was Dr Leslie Ramsammy who made the purchase.

I cannot counter Jagdeo’s 25 cases by offering 25 examples in the oceans of scandals because space would not permit even 15. And if one should do a compilation of the moral and financial nastiness of the Jagdeo regime, it would fill volumes. But let us continue with the few examples that space would allow.
What price did Bobby Ramroop pay for Sanata Textiles and the totality of the estate it rests on?

What price did Eddie Boyer pay for the huge piece of real estate behind Giftland Mall?

The most colossal manifestation of corruption under Jagdeo is Pradoville 2. This is financial morbidity of the nastiest kind. The lands of the people of this country were given away by Jagdeo to himself and his acolytes. Of course, I could turn to a feature in the Kaieteur News titled, THE HEIST OF GUYANA.” It details in meticulous ways how Bharrat Jagdeo’s labyrinthine schemes of corruptibility were tentacles that devoured the resources of this nation.

I don’t want to quote from THE HEIST OF GUYANA because I want to include in this column examples that are not located in the HEIST of GUYANA. For example, how did Jagdeo manage to sell his Pradoville One house when, under the scheme, it was not legal do so until ten years after purchase? Just one year after a young man was brought into Jagdeo’s Cabinet, he built a mansion on West Coast Demerara near to a well known police station. The mansion has a swimming pool and a fancy pool house.

Jagdeo should explain the part he played in the history of court trials in Guyana. To date, the fastest case to reach trial was the one Jagdeo filed as President against me and this newspaper. By world standards, a libel takes about a year to be heard. In Guyana, it may not come up before eight years. In the situation with Jagdeo’s writ, trial commenced eleven months after Anil Nandlall filed papers for Jagdeo.
The moral debaucheries and ethical rut of the Jagdeo/Ramotar administration are unparalleled in the history of the English-speaking Caribbean, details of which this newspaper and any other newspaper will not print simply because they do not think those things should be made public.

Unfortunately space has run out but we should mention Jagdeo’s refusal to remove Henry Green after the American Government told him Green was involved in matters that were related to drug trafficking. That any reader can access by going to Wikileaks. Jagdeo should tell us, how well he knew Roger Khan.