IF any other person was accused of the things of which Nigel Hughes has been accused, not even God would have been able to save him from the wrath of the likes of Mr. Freddie Kissoon. 

In any civilized society, he would have been subject to disciplinary proceedings, and charged with criminal offences.
Over the past year, Mr. Nigel Hughes has been accused of committing a number of misconducts. Both he and his wife found themselves in a position of clear conflict of interest in the Amaila Hydroelectric Project. He was also accused of jury tampering, which resulted in the freeing of persons accused of murdering at least 11 innocent Guyanese (Lusignan massacre).
He was accused of evidence tampering when he removed a surveillance tape at the scene of murder/robbery at a Buxton gas station. Recently, he has been embroiled in another controversy. He sold a plot of land on which he had a mortgage, agreed to pay off the mortgage and pass transport to the purchaser within an agreed time-frame.
As a result of the non-payment of his loan, his bank foreclosed on the land. He reportedly did not even have the decency to inform the purchaser of the foreclosure proceedings in court. Now the land upon which is located the secondary department of one of Guyana’s most popular private schools has been levied upon by marshalls of the Supreme Court.
The future of over 300 young Guyanese preparing for their CXC exams has been placed in jeopardy. Recently, Hughes reported that the matter is settled. We have not heard from the other side. Having regard to his track record, Hughes is hardly believable.
Of all the wrongs of which Hughes has been accused, the one that resonated the most and sent shockwaves throughout the nation was the jury-tampering accusation. Many commentators, organisations, groups and individual citizens called on the Guyana Bar Association and individuals such as Freddie Kissoon to make their positions on the issue known to the nation, but they were largely ignored.
The Guyana Bar Association, after a most unreasonable delay, was forced to make a statement. That statement was most disappointing. Instead of reprimanding Mr. Hughes, they sought to defend him.
As for Hughes, he remained silent, and pretended that he did nothing wrong. It was only recently he seems to have gotten the bright idea that he could defend himself from this serious allegation by blaming the director of public prosecutions(DPP).
Then suddenly, like the proverbial Rip van Winkle, Freddie Kissoon emerged from the wilderness defending Hughes, and calling on the DPP to resign. By some miracle, he conveniently regained his voice to defend Hughes.
Hasn’t this individual, who masquerades as Guyana’s Number One moralist, finally lost whatever modicum of credibility he had. Notwithstanding the mountain of evidence about Hughes’s wrongdoings, Mr. Kissoon chose to look the other way and defend him.
The truth is that Hughes is defending Kissoon, free of cost, in the Jagdeo versus Kissoon case. So his silence against the wrongdoing of Hughes and his attack on the DPP is absolutely self-serving. At another time, when he was drinking soup at the PPP’s table, he ripped apart Hughes, in several articles, when Hughes removed the tape from the Buxton gas station. Now, he is drinking soup at Hughes’s table and sings another tune. The people of Guyana must recognise and condemn such prostitution.

REEAZ HOLLODAR