TIME is an ageless quantum and great measuring stick of all things human. In fact, it is the factor against, which all actions as perpetrated by man, is adjudged. There is no escaping this peerless denominator, since we all live in its ever presence, and are both consciously and unconsciously swept along its unending and unimpeded flow.Thus as humans, whoever we are, even if we attempt to mask our real character, time will reveal our true selves; that is, who we really are.
This can be aptly applied to the membership of the Alliance For Change (AFC) party, especially its leadership. It is amazing that a party which had promised the nation so much about a new political morality, inclusive with its leaders being the paragon of all correct virtue, could in such a very short time, unravel to be nothing else but a bunch of self-seekers, deceivers, and shockingly anti-working class, as the latest example has so clearly showed.
For a person who would have been born and bred in a predominantly rural community, acknowledged as the heart of the nation’s working class, and whose political life would have been honed by its numerous experiences, Moses Nagamootoo’s statement of description that so derisively referred to the citizens of another similar community, can only be described as shockingly disrespectful; utterly contemptuous, and rudely anti-working class.
For all of this politician’s loud talk about being an original and perfect disciple of the working class philosophy of the late great patriot and former President Dr. Cheddi Jagan, often hurling vitriol at those whom he has adjudged as betraying the Father of the Nation, his verbal insult would have caused the latter to turn in his grave!
How could he have categorised himself as a loyalist and faithful adherent to the Jagan principles, and concomitantly harbour such a derogatory understanding of hard working and honest Guyanese, the type that is found in almost every community throughout our country? This is treason against all the rural communities, and in general the people of this land!
Nagamootoo, must be reminded that all honest labour categories of Guyanese, are recognised as part and parcel of the Guyanese national labour force whose contributions toward the growth and development of the country are highly appreciated. And this can be borne out by the numerous PPP/C government socio-economic initiatives from which they have been benefitting since 1992.
It is most unfortunate that the likes of Nagamootoo are seated as Representatives of the People in the Nation’s highest assembly; for they have been proven, with time, not to be genuinely concerned with the wellbeing of the Guyanese citizen. The significant result of their undeserving position, however, is that it has presented the many opportunities of exposing such pretenders and political charlatans.
One can only shudder to think what a Nagamootoo-led government would have done to the working class of this nation!
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The Observer…Nagamootoo’s insult is a great betrayal of the Jagan working class principles
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