Ramjattan lies yet again

KHEMRAJ Ramjattan’s defence that he personally saw “massive numbers of Indo Guyanese” at the Whim rally is maybe “delusional”, but this man has a natural knack for lying. The propensity to lie is one of Ramjattan’s special characteristic. If one could only recall his claims about the PPP bribing three APNU MP’s with $30 million each, his claims that audited financial statements of the AFC were provided at the last AFC’s Conference, his claims that the AFC does not want to close down the sugar industry, and the list goes on.

In the first instance, not only did APNU reject that claim of bribery, but they deflected the allegation right back into the face of Ramjattan. Then in the second case, no AFC member who was present at the Conference had seen a single copy of those statements. Thirdly, Ramjattan had a GAWU Representative who is also an AFC member, on DTV Channel 8, a man named ‘Austin’, who made a pronouncement on the closure of GuySuCo to which Ramjattan agreed.

Austin even had a redundancy plan for GuySuCo. He outlined his plan by saying that GuySuCo should pay each worker $5 million. And then close down the industry. Ramjattan then complimented this ‘young man’ and claimed that this ‘young man’ is very knowledgeable about GuySuCo and sugar. These are only three instances and now there is the fourth.
Ramjattan claimed that he walked through the crowd and saw thousands of Indians. From whatever angle you look at the crowd, there is an extreme scarcity of Indians. Anyone looking at the crowd will conclude that Whim is Linden, because of the overwhelming presence of Afro Guyanese. Is he then claiming that the Indians present at the Whim Rally deliberately segregated themselves from the Afro Guyanese? If this is so, then it is a poor display of “It’s time for Unity!”
An AFC Councillor who was there lamented the absence of Indians at the Rally and claimed that Indians are not pleased with the coalition. In addition, another AFC member claimed likewise.
But Ramjattan can be excused for lying on another point. This poor man was sound asleep, probably having imbibed an excessive amount of “Moses’ cure” and maybe that’s the reason for his delusion. Readers should look at page 13 of the Guyana Times to have the proof of Ramjattan’s sleeping by the side of his wife on the platform of the Rally. Too much of “Moses’ cure” can be counterproductive!
Many eyewitnesses, including me, saw the extreme paucity of Indians at the Rally and this is substantiated by the absence of Indians at AFC+APNU public meetings which took place before. This was the prelude to that Rally. On 31st March, the AFC had to cancel a meeting at my village Chesney. The carload of policemen came to the venue but Ramayya and his gang did not. In 2011, the AFC held two meeting in my village prior to Election Day. The reason for this cancellation is quite obvious!
The people of Whim have rejected Nagamootoo and Ramayya. The people of Whim do not even speak to Ramayya, even his neighbours avoided him. Last Saturday, at the Port Mourant market he tried to be friendly to some people who walked away from him without acknowledging his presence. I saw this first hand. I go to the market every Saturday to make purchases.
Lastly, Ramjattan can probably be excused also on the grounds of physical incapacity. The man can only see strongly in one direction so most likely he had a problem reconciling what he saw.
The AFC is dead meat and there is nothing that Ramjattan and Nagamootoo can do about it.

HASEEF YUSUF

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