Alliance for Change(AFC) Vice-Chairman Moses Nagamootoo thinks the Government shouldn’t go to the Courts to contest the Opposition using its one-seat majority to illegally chop the budget. And this fella said Cheddi wanted him to be President!!! If the Courts are the arbiter of the Constitution and the Constitution delineated the prerogatives of all institutions of the state including the Executive and the Legislature, where in the world do you go to settle disputes?
A smoke-filled back room inside some seedy hotel. Well, that’s what the man has to have in mind when he said rather than going to the Courts, the PPP/C should “negotiate” – read “cut a deal” – with the Opposition. What Nagamootoo’s suggesting is the very antithesis of democracy and in fact, this backroom dealing between politicians even has a notorious name in the US – Tammany Hall politics.
Nobody ever said the wheels of democracy, according to the rule of law, didn’t grind slowly – but they do grind transparently. Nagamootoo wants to get a piece of the action in the back rooms. Like the contract he got from NICIL to “relocate” persons affected by the Berbice Bridge. $7 million?
