No politician in Guyanese history speaks more nonsense than Ramjattan
Kaieteur News – I hardly watch TV. But one night this week, I walked into my study where my wife was flickering channels and I saw Ramjattan being interviewed. So I asked my wife to leave him at that station.
He said there are things about the investigation of the two cousins killed at Cotton Tree last September that have not been disclosed by police and these things should not remain confidential but must be told to Guyanese people. I left with my mouth opened when I heard those words.
Here is an excerpt from my column, “No man can be so ill to vote for such Guyanese politicians,” on Friday, February 14, 2020, “Khemraj Ramjattan told the media two days ago that the covenant had been re-arranged -working a confidential document. Depending on what can be easily termed assinine reasoning; he asked the reporters if they would like their business to be made public. The analogy was not only asinine but depressing. ”
The covenant referred to was the renewal of the Cummingsburg Treaty. Here’s a politician who asked people to vote for him but signed an electoral agreement with another party to challenge the vote, if they win, he, Ramjattan, would be the prime minister but his party’s executives, supporters and supporters cannot voters know what was inside the document.
So far, Ramjattan has never revealed what those secrets were. And guess why? Ramjattan wanted part of the new covenant to remain secret. Because his revelation would have made him the greatest idiot in the world! Ramjattan signed and admitted that if the APNU + AFC wins the 2020 election and is made prime minister, should David Granger’s presidency become vacant, Ramjattan would agree that he will not receive an elevation to the presidency save it for someone from the PNC. But the composition is bellucid in its grammar. The Prime Minister succeeds the president.
They say they will never use the word “never” in life but Ramjattan will never be prime minister. Interestingly, when he uttered those words, he was the Minister of Public Safety and used to have secrets that the public might not know. But this gentleman wants the police to make their secrets public (assuming the police have secrets about the murder of the two cousins).
Next, this gentleman wants the current government to award public servants a 10 per cent pay rise. Rewind the tape to 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Ramjattan was part of a government that sacked 5,000 sugar workers without giving them their financial rights. They had to turn to the courts, which ruled in their favor. This same politician wants public servants to get a pay rise. If they do not get it, they will still be employed. The sugar workers were sacked.
Next, this washed up politician of yesteryear wants the government to issue an apology to his former Cabinet colleague David Patterson. What for? If you didn’t know, when you knew it, you’d think Ramjattan should be part of a Mexican circus show that’s about to tour.
He wants the apology for the government’s public information, when Patterson was Minister for Public Infrastructure, that he received a gold bracelet of nearly one million dollars of public money from one of the agencies over which he had ministerial jurisdiction. The gift was contrary to Cabinet guidelines and appears to be investigated by the Auditor General and the Public Integrity Commission.
All the aforementioned examples of Ramjattan’s humorous vocabulary have been made since he lost power. But he, when in power, his clownish vocabulary was rough. He told a Guyanese on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at a press conference at the PNC’s campaign headquarters that a group of Russians had come to Guyana to rig the election and as a Security Minister, he had been deported. No Russians ever came to Guyana to rig the election. Commonsense would instruct any sane person to ask why if they came to the election rig on March 2 and were deported weeks before that date, Ramjattan did not inform the public but only after the nation’s election that.
Finally, this is the same character, who entered his ministry during June when the election drama was nearing its end and was being recorded with tears in his eyes saying, “From all signs the PPP / C has beaten us by about 15,000 votes. “Then he denied the next day what he is recorded as saying. What a gargantuan clown!
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper.)