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A call for mass street protests, replicating those in Egypt, made by the AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes at a public meeting at the corner of William & Alexander Streets, Kitty, on Friday July 12, 2013 is very frightening in its implications.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is unapologetically calling for mass street protests to oust the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) administration from power. This is treason, and one can remember threats made by WPA/APNU/PNC supporter and ACDA member, Tacuma Ogunseye, just prior to elections – dire warnings if the parties that he supports are not allowed to share the government after elections of 2011.
And indeed, subsequent to elections 2011 there has been scant progress as has been seen in the country prior to then, because if the joint Opposition is not being obstructionist in Parliament, then they are inciting riots and mayhem in the nation’s streets and communities, with resultant destruction to public and private properties, much criminal activities, including wanton murder.
Hughes said street protests were the only effective means of removing the government. “I don’t care what they say that marching down the street does cause disruption and marching down the street – people does get frighten and they send people to infiltrate. Well, understand that the strongest weapon you have is the weapon of mass protest…These are radical times. You are facing extraordinary problems and it requires extraordinary solutions,” he said.
According to Hughes, oppressive governments do not give up power easily and, as in Egypt, they yield only to widespread public pressure.
He said that Guyanese should prepare for the revolution on the streets.
“At the end of the day, we the people will have to take the streets to change and get the things that we want. There is no other way” he reiterated.
Not content with that, he accused government of discriminating against a segment of students at the National Grade Six Assessment that ensures only select persons can attend high-grade secondary schools, and this is very frightening in its implications. One can assume that he is subtly telling the people whom he represents in court – such as the alleged killers of the children in Lusignan, that it is alright to take vengeance for these alleged acts of discrimination against their children – by what means? Are we to once again witness another dark night such as happened in Lusignan when so many children were murdered in their beds, because his allusion is very clear.
Hughes blamed government’s lack of vision for misspending public funds on projects such as the Marriott Hotel rather than dredging the Demerara River to allow greater volumes of imports and exports at a lower cost. He thinks he is in the Government and forgot to mention that it is the vision of the Government that has put Guyana’s treasury in the black once more, and that the Government has plans for a deep-water harbour, which the opposition is delaying with their inhibitory schemes and actions.
He also dishonestly failed to mention that exams are marked in other countries and results are determined, not by Guyanese, but by relevant bodies.
“The next time there is a scandal, make sure you gather at the street corner because, like the people in Egypt, we will have to take to the streets because we are not going to continue to have people ride on our backs,” he said. He again did not mention that the scandals are mostly (if not all) created by the Opposition, with no proof whatsoever, and when called upon to debate their litany of accusations about corruption, they literally run away, because they have no proof and all their ‘facts’ are made up of thin air.
Then he went after the private sector, calling the business community a band of bribers. “We don’t have a business community in Guyana. We have a community of bribe-payers, bribe takers and they call that progress,” he said. The police, judiciary, sugar and other sectors all came under attack.
One can also remember Hughes’s “Open letter to the people of Linden” in the Kaieteur News of March 4, wherein he told Lindeners that “The CoI is now over and your wounds are still raw and perhaps even more so.
“The question is where do you go from here? That is a matter only you the people of Linden can determine after you have deliberated on the contents of the report. The awards for damages for the loss of lives of three of your citizens are appallingly low and the report has attributed fault for their deaths to the Guyana Police Force.”
When the actions of agitation of Lindeners and Agricola, the latter after Hughes and Moses Nagamootoo had threatened the President with ‘consequences’ if he did not fire Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, are taken into consideration, then the threat to national peace is frightening, because our past seems to be our ever-recurring present and future.
APNU has also recently encouraged its members to be militant against the PPP/C administration.
When one considers that PNC/APNU/AFC seem to be echoes of each other in and out of Parliament then, in the words of the great William Shakespeare, ‘mischief is afoot’.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) is unapologetically calling for mass street protests to oust the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) administration from power. This is treason, and one can remember threats made by WPA/APNU/PNC supporter and ACDA member, Tacuma Ogunseye, just prior to elections – dire warnings if the parties that he supports are not allowed to share the government after elections of 2011.
And indeed, subsequent to elections 2011 there has been scant progress as has been seen in the country prior to then, because if the joint Opposition is not being obstructionist in Parliament, then they are inciting riots and mayhem in the nation’s streets and communities, with resultant destruction to public and private properties, much criminal activities, including wanton murder.
Hughes said street protests were the only effective means of removing the government. “I don’t care what they say that marching down the street does cause disruption and marching down the street – people does get frighten and they send people to infiltrate. Well, understand that the strongest weapon you have is the weapon of mass protest…These are radical times. You are facing extraordinary problems and it requires extraordinary solutions,” he said.
According to Hughes, oppressive governments do not give up power easily and, as in Egypt, they yield only to widespread public pressure.
He said that Guyanese should prepare for the revolution on the streets.
“At the end of the day, we the people will have to take the streets to change and get the things that we want. There is no other way” he reiterated.
Not content with that, he accused government of discriminating against a segment of students at the National Grade Six Assessment that ensures only select persons can attend high-grade secondary schools, and this is very frightening in its implications. One can assume that he is subtly telling the people whom he represents in court – such as the alleged killers of the children in Lusignan, that it is alright to take vengeance for these alleged acts of discrimination against their children – by what means? Are we to once again witness another dark night such as happened in Lusignan when so many children were murdered in their beds, because his allusion is very clear.
Hughes blamed government’s lack of vision for misspending public funds on projects such as the Marriott Hotel rather than dredging the Demerara River to allow greater volumes of imports and exports at a lower cost. He thinks he is in the Government and forgot to mention that it is the vision of the Government that has put Guyana’s treasury in the black once more, and that the Government has plans for a deep-water harbour, which the opposition is delaying with their inhibitory schemes and actions.
He also dishonestly failed to mention that exams are marked in other countries and results are determined, not by Guyanese, but by relevant bodies.
“The next time there is a scandal, make sure you gather at the street corner because, like the people in Egypt, we will have to take to the streets because we are not going to continue to have people ride on our backs,” he said. He again did not mention that the scandals are mostly (if not all) created by the Opposition, with no proof whatsoever, and when called upon to debate their litany of accusations about corruption, they literally run away, because they have no proof and all their ‘facts’ are made up of thin air.
Then he went after the private sector, calling the business community a band of bribers. “We don’t have a business community in Guyana. We have a community of bribe-payers, bribe takers and they call that progress,” he said. The police, judiciary, sugar and other sectors all came under attack.
One can also remember Hughes’s “Open letter to the people of Linden” in the Kaieteur News of March 4, wherein he told Lindeners that “The CoI is now over and your wounds are still raw and perhaps even more so.
“The question is where do you go from here? That is a matter only you the people of Linden can determine after you have deliberated on the contents of the report. The awards for damages for the loss of lives of three of your citizens are appallingly low and the report has attributed fault for their deaths to the Guyana Police Force.”
When the actions of agitation of Lindeners and Agricola, the latter after Hughes and Moses Nagamootoo had threatened the President with ‘consequences’ if he did not fire Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, are taken into consideration, then the threat to national peace is frightening, because our past seems to be our ever-recurring present and future.
APNU has also recently encouraged its members to be militant against the PPP/C administration.
When one considers that PNC/APNU/AFC seem to be echoes of each other in and out of Parliament then, in the words of the great William Shakespeare, ‘mischief is afoot’.
