Moses fraudulent ascension in the AFC

IT must be noted with extreme interest that Moses Nagamootoo’s political ambitions have pervaded the AFC’s strategies and policies since the 2011 General Elections.The Budget cuts, the assassination of vitally important bills and projects and its inputs into violent and racially motivated protests at Linden and Agricola were all done in pursuance of that man’s ambition – to depose of the PPP/C Government and to install himself as the President of the land.

From the very inception of Nagamootoo’s entry into the AFC, the Constitution of the AFC was spuriously cast aside in order to facilitate him on the AFC’s Candidates’ List. He had to be given a Member of Parliament status as soon as he joined the AFC, just a few weeks before the 2011 elections.

Long-standing members were thrown aside to make way for him. For instance, hardworking Party members such as Latchmin Punalall and her husband, Dr. Punalall were collateral damages in Khemraj Ramjattan’s scheme of things. This is in direct violation of the Constitutional provisions and an insult to these long-standing members.

Then in the 2012 AFC’s Conference, Moses Nagamootoo was again propelled forward. This time in direct violation of Articles 4 Sub-section(c) and Article 7 Section (8), he was made the Vice-Chairman of the AFC.

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Moses Nagamootoo

Again, the Constitution was willfully violated and the election obscenely rigged to facilitate Nagamootoo. Long-standing stalwarts of the AFC, such as Gerhard Ramsaroop and others never stood a chance.

The internal machinations of the AFC were skewed in favour of Nagamootoo.
Then at the Conference the AFC Leader soundly and comprehensively kicked the Constitution when he unconstitutionally endorsed Nagamootoo as the AFC’s Presidential candidate. This is in direct violation of Article 18, Sections (1) and (2).

Let us now go back to the launching of the AFC. The AFC leaders at that time made an unwritten convention that became the guiding principle in the nomination of its Presidential candidate.

They said the Presidential candidate’s position will be rotated between a Black and an Indian person – between Ramjattan and Trotman. We saw that Trotman became the first Presidential candidate in 2006 and then Ramjattan in 2011. Now in 2015, that founding principle is being violated so that once again Nagamootoo is propelled closer to fulfilling his political ambitions. This time he is the Presidential candidate of the AFC. But wait, it does not stop there!
Realising that the AFC has a snowball’s chance in Hell to win any election in this country and in order to increase the probability of Nagamootoo’s ascension to the Presidency, the AFC is proposing a coalition with the PNC (APNU) whereby they are proposing that the man be made the Presidential candidate of the APNU/AFC Coalition.

The above illustration is clear that the AFC’s goals are to satisfy their lust for power and vengeance.

I want to now draw to the readers’ attention to the AFC’s Action Plan (2nd Edition) to illustrate that the only change that the AFC’s leadership is interested in, is the change to fulfill their own selfish political agenda.
In that document, Mr. Ramjattan, the AFC’s Presidential Candidate strongly and convincingly stated that, “The Alliance For Change is the key to unlock us from the divisive racial politics of the past…Over four decades of the PNC and PPP Governments have left us all bruised, weary and hopeless…We must acknowledge the sins of our past….”
These sentiments were echoed by the Prime Ministerial Candidate in the same 2011 AFC’s Action Plan. He stated emphatically that, “I am convinced that we are wiser from the mistakes of the past…For 45 years Guyana has had the same parties making turns in all the wrong directions, disappointing and betraying its citizens….”
The AFC and its leadership have made abundantly clear that they are going to be different from the PNC and the PPP and by implication that they will never coalesce with either of them, so why is the AFC willing to form a coalition with the PNC who have comprehensively bankrupted this Nation?
The AFC has continuously violated its own Constitution and its founding principles. Can this nefarious band of Bacchus’ disciples, chameleons, charlatans, hypocrites, opportunists, and power-hungry vipers be allowed to get into power? The answer is a resounding NO!

HASEEF YUSUF
AFC Councillor –Region 6

 

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