IN his effort to convince the handful of Indians in the audience in New York to support him, Mr. Moses Nagamootoo attempted to claim that he is more of a Jaganite than everyone else.He used his dirt-filling of the lots that Dr. Cheddi Jagan built his house on as proof of his legitimacy. He also spoke of Dr. Jagan’s failed efforts to form a national front government with the PNC and his (Moses’s) involvement and effort in pursuing that goal.

Mr. Nagamootoo is indirectly implicating the Father of the Nation as an incompetent Indian leader who only wanted power. He is standing on Dr. Jagan’s grave and making these accusations. He is using reverse psychology when he says, “I am not his biological son, but Joey Jagan is on the AFC platform”.

It was Mrs. Jagan, with the other Central Committee members, who refused Mr. Nagamootoo’s demand for the presidency. He complained that “I was robbed” of one and all, after my 40 years of dedicated service to the PPP, dating back to when I was age 14.”

He wants truth and change, but he can handle neither truth nor change. He is calling on 11% of Indians to vote for him, so he can deliver them to the Promised Land (PNC rule). The other 89% percent are wicked and evil people and will have to suffer.

How do you identify that 11% of good Indians, Mr. Nagamootoo? Is there a code in some secret book?

In the PNC/AFC meeting, he began playing up to the African audience by outlining his historical connection to Mr. David Granger. He is trying to paint the picture of Mr. Granger as the black Christ, outlining his forward-thinking policies and not looking at the rear view mirror.

Let the Brigadier offer his own apologies. Or is this a demonstration of your inferiority complex? He wants to take a “selfie” and not look at the static picture in his old album.
“Selfies” can have adverse effects on one’s vision (is that the intent?), but that seems to fit comfortably into Mr. Nagamootoo’s world view.

Mr. Nagamootoo thinks that by sweeping our past experience beneath the rug, it will disappear. When we look at Granger, we see Burnham and do not see Walter Rodney, and that is not going to be swept away.

The Indians in that audience were there because they were traumatised by a generation of PNC abuse…. Just when they were beginning to be healed, there comes a charlatan named Moses. But we know in which hole the smart preverbal fly ends up.

But if David Granger is Christ, there must be a Judas. So the reward of the prime ministership amounts to no more than a figurehead; or better yet, a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Suffice to say that Mr. Nagamootoo has left a trail of betrayal of his constituents, and he is no Jaganite, not by any stretch of the imagination.

We dealt with Mr. Nagamootoo on numerous occasions at PPP fund-raising fairs, and my friend Mr. Premchand Dass, (God rest his sole) a confidante of Dr. Jagan, always told me of how ambitious Mr. Nagamootoo was. He always wanted to speak first and ride in the front seat with Dr. Jagan.

He gives the impression that he was the closest to Dr. Jagan, and is more qualified for the position than anyone else. But Mr. Nagamootoo’s qualification can be described with one word: “egotistical”.

Playing the role of Judas will get what my Nanie called katahar. Stay clear from the Minotaur. Fill up the cup.

LATCHMAN MOHABIR