I HAVE noted the disappointment expressed by many in the media about the AFC’s refusal to reprimand Mr. Nigel Hughes, the chairman of the party, for his blatant and deliberate manipulation of the court system, to free two of Guyana’s most notorious criminals of the murder of eleven innocent people, including five children.

One cannot help but also notice that all the most vocal rights organisations going into hibernation in the middle of summer. Maybe they will hibernate until another criminal is killed in confrontation with the police.
You would recall how vocal these so-called organisations and so-called rights activists were when former Commissioner of Police, Mr. Henry Green was accused of rape and the DPP recommended that he be charged. They literally protested day and night and made headlines and front pages in certain opposition aligned newspapers for weeks.  Where are they now? Where is Mike McCormack and his Human (or criminal as some would say) rights organisation as some would say? Where is Red Thread, where is Women Against Violence? etc.
What about those who always publicly preach morality and ethics to the country, but have suddenly become mute when the opposition and their peers are involved? How can these individuals and organisations preach moral and ethics and portray themselves as occupying morally and ethically high grounds but chose to be silent when it concerns their colleagues and friends. This sort of behaviour is not just immoral and unethical but is also outright hypocritical!
I therefore call on Mr. Hamilton Green, Mr. Christopher Ram and Freddy Kissoon and their cohorts who likened Mr. Nigel Hughes to the late great Dr. Walter Rodney to come out of their hibernation and declare to the nation how moral and ethical is it for him to act the way he did in the Lusignan massacre murder trial.  We all know what his actions were and what was the result – the accused murderers of eleven innocent people, including five children, were freed.
Freddy why are you silent?
There now seems to be a new member of this club, one you will least expect to join them. He is former Chief Parliamentary Counsel Bryn Pollard, SC. He has been commenting on quite a lot on the Linden Commission of Inquiry, an inquiry conducted by some of his most esteemed colleagues of the Caribbean.  He also commented on the president’s refusal to assent to bills. But weeks going into months since Mr. Nigel Hughes deliberately manipulated the court to free the Lusignan massacre murder accused, and his blatant conflict of interest with the Hydro Electricity Project, Mr. Pollard has failed to make a single comment on this reprehensible conduct, acts which in any of the so-called civilised countries we like to conveniently point to, would have already resulted in very serious sanctions.
To all I say, this level hypocrisy borders on vulgarity.  The nation watches on!