IT is often difficult to find an authentic moment in Moses Nagamootoo because of his steep preoccupation for outlandish and outrageous distortions.

Because he has an axe to grind with the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) no one expects Nagamootoo to deviate from his vendetta, which is solely motivated by bitterness and hate.
So obvious is his tirade, he tries to blame the PPP/C Government for the APNU/AFC actions of billions of dollars in budget cuts to Amerindian and Hinterland development, among other initiatives aimed at creating jobs and a better life for Guyanese. To even contemplate that the Government can be responsible for the reckless Opposition actions is both clumsy and un-clever on the part of Nagamootoo.
With such public sting and outrage penetrating APNU/AFC no amount of twisting of facts and reality can spare the Opposition from the heat for jeopardising the country’s development prospects.
The recent Opposition-imposed budget cuts proved very clearly that there is more of an obsession in undermining the PPP/C Government by placing undue hardship on the people of Guyana and reversing the years of social and economic progress.
Nagamootoo does what he does best; accuses and generalises, but with no supporting evidence. He attempts to put wool over the eyes of every Guyanese by pointing to a reduction in remittances in 2013, although he knows that this has been attributed to the global economic crisis.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) Vice-Chairman is further exposed when his lamentation of the US-Guyana exchange rate increase omits the fact that it is tied to his party’s failure to support the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2013 (AML/CFT). The Kaieteur News on March 2, confirmed this when it quoted a local cambio dealer as saying “the exchange rate fluctuate for different reasons, but this is happening because of the Anti-Money Laundering situation”. The AFC, in unison with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) ignored advice emanating from every conceivable corner, which called on them to pass the AML/CFT Bill.
He challenges the political values of the PPP but ignored, deliberately so, the crumbling of his own party, which continues to witness mass migration of its members over corruption, lack of transparency and lack of accountability within the AFC.
Guyanese are witnessing, by the day, the insincerity of the AFC, which continues to pursue ‘change’, yes, for the worse. Many of its members have exited because the AFC has failed to live up to its ideals and by the minute it is hard to make a distinction between the AFC and PNC/APNU and their disruptive, confrontational politics; and here, we recall the role played by the AFC in instigating the Linden and Agricola violent unrest.
The most glaring example of the recognition of AFC failure to live up to its ideals was its recent rejection by hundreds of sugar workers who booed and chased away Nagamootoo outside Parliament buildings.
I expect the recurring vendetta campaign of distortions and vilification to continue, spearheaded by a bitter and disillusioned Nagamootoo.
DEXTER GLASGOW