I WAS in the audience on March 22, 2015 when Mr. Moses Nagamootoo announced that his party, the AFC formed an alliance with the APNU because he was interested in change. It was Mr. Nagamootoo who, in March 2001, flew in a rage when Bharrat Jagdeo was selected by Janet Jagan and others to be the President of Guyana.
This was a dramatic change from the party’s policy to promote those who “struggled” the most, to the top echelons of the PPP. Mr. Moses wants change but he cannot handle change. He is in for a rude awakening should the APNU/AFC collation wins the election.
The PNC/APNU on the other hand, takes decisive action when it comes to making changes. The jettison of the United Force (UF) is a glaring example.
Mr Nagamootoo addressing an audience that was made up predominately of African supporters of the PNC/APNU, declared that when he was invited to India to accept an award from the Indian Government, as an accomplish Indian, he informed the Indians that he was a Guyanese not an Indian. Yet Mr Moses Nagamootoo is asking Indians in Guyana to vote for him. Mr Nagamootoo is a Guyanese when it suits him and an Indian when he wants Indian votes. He is what some people call a mud skipper/chameleon.
I think Mr Nagamootoo is confused as to what he wants. He was PPP, then he was retired from politics, then AFC and now he is PNC/APNU. As a PPP member, he always accused anyone with the aforementioned quality to be a ‘lumpen proletariat’. Has Nagamootoo now become that which he once accused others of being? Will the real Moses stand up or are we in for another surprise?
LATCHMAN MOHABIR