Mr. Kwayana, show some respect for your age. Please!
Kaieteur News- I have heard the saying in my home when I was growing up and it still resonates. When an aging person does something bad, you would say – “does he not have respect for his age?” Eusi Kwayana is 97 years old.
Mr. Kwayana has become such an oppressive hypocrite that young scholars need to highlight his tattoo legacy which is ignorant in the face of Guyanese history. He seems to have no shame at all. During the five years of the APNU + AFC corrupt rule, he issued perhaps one letter. It was on the closed sugar industry.
Since the election rigging began in March 2020, Kwayana has issued about 10 letters. So in five years, only one, but 10 in 11 months. These letters have two dimensions. One is his explanation that he cannot pronounce on election rigging because he does not have the facts. The second is critical of the new government which includes a call for it to replace the opposition in the state media.
Now Kwayana is at it again and her sick double standards are shining bright and insightful. He inquires as to why the charges against Ashni Singh and Winston Brassington were discontinued. Here in that letter (SN, Thursday, February 11) are the words of this prejudiced man, “It is my duty to be kept informed and keep up with developments at home.”
This is the same gentleman who wrote on more than four occasions that pronunciation on the election cannot interfere because it lacks the facts. It lacks the facts in an era where a smartphone can be used to show you the facts across the oceans of one person hitting another. So how does Kwayana know the charges have been dropped?
Here is Kwayana again in the same letter, “I see myself as one of the contributors to whatever has developed in Guyana today, good or bad, and I am not about to try to hide and act as if that my activity had nothing. concerning him. “But for five months Kwayana hid from the reality in Guyana and found refuge in silly words that include the following phrase,” I for one find it useless to pamper about facts I don’t have . ” (KN April 26, 2020)
The truth is he wants to get the facts. He refused to acknowledge them. Here’s a question – if he didn’t have the facts about rigging the election then where did he get the fact that the opposition doesn’t get a place in the state media? Another question – how did he know it was a fact that the SOCU had dropped the charges against Singh and Brassington?
Let us prove to whoever takes an interest in Guyanese society and admires Kwayana, which hypocrite he has become. Here are Kwayana’s words on Claudette Singh – “I cannot pretend that she is not affected by Singh’s statement intending to deliver a valid election … I have often wondered whether those who appealed to her public spirit have taken the necessary steps to support its stated aspirations. ”(KN, April 26, 2020)
So what about the aspirations of state media editors? Does Kwayana accept their word that they intend to be fair and impartial? What about SOCU? Why does Kwayana want to know why the allegations were dropped? If Kwayana could accept Claudette Singh’s professionalism, then why not SOCU’s profession?
Here are more quotes from Kwayana that show just how bad his slip is and has been showing since March 4, 2020 when he didn’t know what Claudette Singh, Clairmont Mingo and Keith Lowenfield were doing. In devaluing my condemnation of Claudette Singh, he writes, “after outright condemning the chairman (Singh)… he (Kissoon) is the one making the accusation… as the lawyer says, ‘you must for him or her asserting to prove. ‘”(KN, May 14, 2020) Did Kwayana prove that the state media locked the opposition out?
Here is Kwayana again and here he stands open. I will ask readers to re-read this quote because it questions everything he wrote from the 1950s to 2021. For five months there have been ugly, clumsy, twisted, sick attempts to deny hundreds of thousands of people their right to vote. When asked to comment on this nightmare journey, he responded, “The impressions I get are not based on facts passing my own test.” Well, Eusi Kwayana, your test is flawed and has always been flawless and you only considered the last 60 years to suit your purposes.Thank you for exposing yourself to our new generation in Guyana.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper.)