Contesting on platform of deceptions…
Naga and Jhaat tie
–  in race to be AFC’s token Indian leader
KHEMRAJ Ramjattan was promised leadership of the AFC on a rotational basis, but Trotman has never relinquished that position, so Ramjattan is just a bitter, venomous mouthy nothing who can make no decisions, but is left to do the dirty work of the puppeteers who are drawing his strings. Moses Nagamootoo wanted the presidency and the final rejection of his candidacy by the PPP/C sent the self-appointed deliverer into the embrace of the AFC with the promise of “a high place” and a Vice-presidency.

Naga and Jhaat holding ‘Larwah’
Both aspiring presidents are today holding “larwah”. Moses was not even given the Speakership position to which he aspired because Trotman had cut a secret deal with the PNC to reject him in return for AFC support.
However, PPP defectors to the AFC have to be blind not to recognize the trend. Gaumattie Singh was denied a parliamentary seat because Trotman chose Chantal Smith instead, Trotman has always been leader of the AFC since inception, despite the co-leadership premise on which it was founded, with Ramjattan always having been left floundering in the cold, and Nagamootoo was denied the Speaker’s position. Guess who holds both positions coveted by Ramjattan and Nagamootoo?
Trotman, of course, because he has been revealed to have been holding secret talks with the hierarchy of the PNC, the beast out of whose belly he emerged; and ironically, it is the PPP/C support base that is being eroded to ultimately empower the PNC, and former PPP supporters in the Diaspora and the business world whom are funding them.
Michael Forde, Bholanauth Parmanand and Jagan Ramessar must be turning in their graves.

Moses got millions from NICIL
One of the major planks of the PPP/C administration’s developmental drive is a concretization of public/private partnerships, which has catalyzed unprecedented growth in Guyana, and, apart from the prudent and astute management by the Government of the nation’s fiscal affairs, NICIL has been the primary facilitating agency that has enabled this superlative success that has transmuted into a steady growth in the national economic dynamics.
Moses Nagamootoo has made millions from NICIL for legal work, primarily on the re-settlement programme for the residents of D’Edward Village to facilitate the Berbice Bridge; as well as the families that had to be re-located to facilitate the Hope Canal.
He has also earned many millions more as legal adviser/facilitator for the Ministry of Housing and Water, preparing transports, titles, etc.
Today he is one of the most strident voices condemning these entities, and the heads of these entities on charges of “corruption”.
Nagamootoo has become a multi-millionaire from contracts awarded to him for most of government’s legal work, including the privatization of Guyana National Engineering Corp (GNEC).
Where was the voice of this ‘incorruptible’ during the long years when he was drawing down his millions from the very government and agencies, and their heads that he is now accusing of being ‘corrupt’?
Showing the Government who is boss
Instead, in order to protect narrow partisan interests, to take revenge for personal slights, to show the Government who is boss, the joint opposition, with support from the opposition media, is putting major stumbling blocks to impede national developmental initiatives.
That this destabilization campaign has severe negative impacts on the Guyanese people, with the very survival of some entire families being threatened, matters not a whit to these leaders (sic!), whose own supporters are currently on the breadline because of their actions.
Maybe there would be many more like Gaumattie Singh and AFC delegate Yusuf who would realize the colossal mistake they have made in trying to deliver this nation into the jaws of the wolves in sheep’s clothing, because the wolves are already devouring each other, merely waiting for the day when the treasury is delivered to them before they begin swallowing the spoils.

Fooling the people
AFC supporters, who had been fooled by the fancy talk of these erstwhile messiahs who promised to deliver them from the terrible PPP are, in Ramjattan’s language “collateral damage”; so just as Trotman fooled Ramjattan and Nagamootoo into joining AFC with promises of co-leadership and ‘a high place’, so did the duo fool former PPP supporters to win their trust, their votes, their help and their resources.
Today, like Yusuf, Gaumattie Singh; as well as thousands of other supporters, whom the AFC caused to lose their jobs through their infamous budgetary cuts, are left holding, in the now-famous words of President Donald Ramotar, “larwah!”.  AFC is a party of “larwah holders – right from Ramjattan and Nagamootoo, who have been fooled by Trotman to win their support, to the ordinary supporters, who have been fooled by Ramjattan and Nagamootoo.

AFC leaders have contempt for supporters
Their contempt for the workers whose rights they said they were representing to win their support and their votes was evident when Ramjattan, upon being reminded that their actions in Parliament would make many workers be forced out of their jobs, said, “well, if they gotta go, then they gotta go,” while calling them “collateral damage”.
The only difference is that today big shots like Ramjattan, Nagamootoo and Ramayah are sitting cool in Parliament, drawing all the parliamentary benefits, including duty-free vehicles that they are selling at huge profits, while their supporters are left “high and dry” like the Amerindians, Yusuf Gaumattie Singh and those who have become “collateral damage” through the infamous budgetary cuts.
It is a well-known fact that troublemakers in the society who aspired to the hallowed halls of the National Assembly, or higher offices, were bribed with parliamentary seats, a vice-presidency, or a co-leadership position to join the AFC. The Gaumattie Singh imbroglio should have warned wannabes like Yusuf what to expect from the AFC.

Trotman and PNC using PPP defectors to break up PPP
The AFC is another arm to break up the PPP support base and give the PNC power once more, and they have certainly succeeded. Persons like Yusuf should not complain, because Guyana’s history is there for the reading, but they have chosen to join the wolves in sheep’s clothing. But today the wolves are devouring each other in order to gain the spoils.
For the sake of credibility Trotman would be forced to relinquish the position of leader of the AFC. In order to continue to fool more PPP supporters it is obvious that either the Naga or the Jhaat would accede to that position; and it would be interesting to see who would accede to the “high place” left vacant and who would be left holding “larwah”.