I HAVE noted with growing impatience and disgust the inordinate attention being given in the media to the dismissal of Freddie Kissoon. It is not unusual in Guyana for certain types of events to capture the attention of the public in  such an obscene manner that  those who have been wronged by these events are made to suffer at the expense of those who are glorified shamelessly.
This is more or less akin to what played out after the recent election results were released and the scandalous display of bullyism that followed which almost went to the full mile with the resignation of the Chairman of the Elections Commission, because certain disgruntled elements could not get their own way.

Last Sunday evening I was viewing a local television programme which featured one Mr Phillips, a former PNC/R candidate who was being interviewed by Mr Yesu Persaud, a rabid critic of the government and life Chairman of DDL.

Both of these individuals, Mr Persaud and Mr Phillips are recognised by the Guyanese populace as representatives of  their respective ethnic groups, and are perceived to be in the fold of the opposition.

I was therefore not surprised to hear both Mr Persaud and Mr Phillips discussing the dismissal of Freddie Kissoon, a putrid critic of the government in the most anti-Government, distasteful and offensive manner.

It is time that these two individuals come to the realisation that the election campaign is over and the nation needs to settle down so that we can all restore some semblance of normalcy to our lives.

The unmistakable conclusion, having listened to the viscous and venomous attack on the Government by these two critics, was that this programme was arranged to stir up public sentiments over the dismissal of Freddie Kissoon.

Mr Editor, it was a shameless display of unbridled abuse of freedom of speech in the name of defending someone, who got his due deserts from being allowed in my view to masquerade too long, using public sympathy as an excuse for a lecturer.

Judging from the volumes of his writings which are at best mediocre, it befuddles the mind how such a person was allowed to be part of that noble profession of educating the minds of the nation at any level much less the tertiary  level.

No wonder the University of Guyana has not been producing graduates of any calibre.

It was not surprising therefore that at no time did either of these persons on the programme mention that Freddie during his  26 years as a lecturer never published any credible academic paper that is capable of peer review, and secondly, that he had passed the retirement age as a lecturer since last October.

Both of these are public facts and do not need to be verified by anyone as the two humourists  were demanding on the programme, making parallels with others who have been given natural justice.

It is amazing if one were to examine the daily diatribes of a sick mind of what is supposed to be a columnist, which can only find readership and venerated by  sections of the Guyanese society who are bitterly opposed to the government because of the ethnic division that exists in the country, that such a person who has a position as a senior lecturer of the University of Guyana to be allowed to pollute the minds of his students with his diabolical and obsessive hatred of the government.

It is shameless to say the least for Mr Yesu  Persaud to appear to be sympathetic to such an individual, and I would like to ask Mr Persaud if he had children who were not  fortunate as his  to attend overseas universities, would he have allowed them to be exposed to this pathological miscreant, whose mental profile is now being examined by the court, and  I have no doubt will soon reveal an unstable mind?

This approach of establishing an acute envy and incestuous  hatred for our former President, had it been pursued by the attorney of the former president on the libel case against Freddie in the first instance, the judge would have had no choice but to pronounce on his lack of suitability as a lecturer at the university for reasons of insanity. It is no doubt that the Council which made that decision would have been acting in the best interest of the nation, rather than as it would  appear to the misguided masses,  for political reasons. Thank God for a little mercy even though it is 26 years late.