AFC's Nigel Hughes sent to address mostly Afro gathering at APNU rally while Moses & Ramjattan stayed away
(Eyewitness)Some people are shameless…people like Moses Nagamootoo and Ramjattan, for instance. These wankers were in the PPP/C for decades…Nagamootoo claims he clocked in 50 years!! Sounds about right, since he’s in his late 70s, no?? But the problem is, NOT ONCE in all those decades of mobilising and campaigning for the PPP/C did they even MENTION that the latter party PLAYED the race card. Much less EXPLOITED it! Now if exploiting racial divisions was the PPP/C’s schtick, for Nagamootoo and Ramjattan to have risen so high in the PPP/C hierarchy (they were in the HIGHEST decision making body, the Ex-Co), they must’ve done more than their fair share of race-baiting, no?? Have they ever confessed to such sins?? Apart from giving them some moral grounds for criticising the PPP/C now, it would be good for their souls. And from where this Eyewitness sits, the souls of these two wankers are in dire need of salving. Not “saving”…they’re beyond redemption.
But it’s rather rich for the dyspeptic duo from Berbice to talk about the PPP/C playing “race politics”. That’s a classic case of smearing their doo-doo on the PPP/C’s collective bamzee. Let’s look at the public record of the AFC and race recently. They claim as an article of faith, they’re a “multiracial” party. In Guyana this means representing Indian, African, Amerindian, Mixed and miscellaneous Guyanese, no?? Well, not if you go by Nagamootoo and Ramjattan’s ACTIONS rather than their words. The AFC’s African-dominated parliamentary partner, APNU – which supported the AFC’s No-Confidence Motion down the line – had a prorogation protest at Square of the Revolution. Rather than attending, they sent their AFRICAN Executives. Why?? They didn’t want to send the “wrong message” to their supporters in Berbice!!!
What message?? That they’re sharing the stage with APNU, the party they’ve been working with for the last two years in Parliament!! Why can they work with APNU behind closed doors and not out in the open?? The only reason is RACE!! As this Eyewitness has said before, they’re treating African Guyanese like they have “Kuh-Kuh-Beh”… And they have the balls to say they’re not racist?? What the AFC’s doing is playing to the worst prejudices and stereotypes of Guyanese. What kind of leadership is this?? The only way to overcome such prejudices is for real leaders to move beyond the cold calculus of picking up a few racist votes and show the Guyanese people that they’ll stand for principles.
Principles?? Sadly, that’s a word not found in the vocabulary of the AFC’s Nagamootoo and Ramjattan.
