Dear Editor
HASEEF Yusuf, as far as is publicly known, had been a member of the Alliance For Change(AFC), becoming an NDC councillor, sometime after 2006, if my memory serves me correctly. But thereafter, and in the ensuing process of the coalition government taking office, there seemed to have been a falling out between this councillor and his party, for reasons which may have had to do with him not expecting his rewards, or for others, not quite known. Since the parting, Yusuf has taken to vilifying the coalition in the most hostile of ways.

Reading his many written letters–all sent to the Kaieteur News–one cannot fail to discern the vindictiveness as he sought to criticise and castigate the David Granger-led administration without foundation or reason. His attempts at vilification, is similar in both taste and tone, to another well-known public commentator who, has also made a 360-degree turn against the government, because he believes what he has perceived to have been a leading role in opposing the dangerous PPP/C regime, which resulted in his employment being terminated, and other grave indignities suffered, included threats to his life, he should have been considered for re-employment, which also extends to his wife who had also suffered a similar fate under the jackboot of the Jagdeo regime.
For both these persons, the Granger administration has been the worst that this nation has ever had, with the recurring theme that Guyana is the ‘worst country’ that exists under the sun, for every conceivable reason that this particular commentator can conceive in his vengeful mind, lined by blind spite.

However, the thrust of this letter must be on a recent missive by Yusuf, “Master strategist,” October 03, 2019 in Kaieteur News. Of course, it pertains to his hero, and ‘political super brain’; Dr Bharrat Jagdeo. Editor, it is not the first time I have seen this descriptive brand of Jagdeo, which signals the following conclusion namely, that Yusuf had never been a genuine member of the AFC; that he perhaps made a shift, sensing the wind of change. For how does one explain his descent into cussing out the government, for reasons which are outlined, have to be personal, and not relating to the government’s socio-economic development record, which continues to improve communities and citizens, though I believe that he would have mentioned the sugar workers as a means of obscuring his real intentions: Go back to his ‘master strategist’ claim.

One wonders just how, how much do the Yusufs understand what their blind sycophancy contribute to its object of misplaced adulation? Of course, Guyana is a democracy, with every citizen having the right to their particular political support base. It is even their right to shower encomiums. But Yusuf’s are entirely misplaced, and a disservice and insult to those well-deserving and well-earned political giants, who his ‘master strategist’, cannot, in a million years, even contemplate fetching their notes!

In describing Jagdeo as a ‘‘master strategist par excellence and a matchless leader of the Guyanese are just some of the many complimentary remarks made by both the local and international communities and people of all races…” Editor, this is the kind of joke that one needs for lifting the spirits when under the weather on a down day.

If this is Yusuf’s conception of Jagdeo, as a result of the latter tabling of the No Confidence Motion(NCM) which resulted in the defeat of the coalition, then Yusuf, like Jagdeo, his party and MPs and all the subscribers to this parliamentary treachery, is guilty of perpetrating the biggest legislative fraud, lie and hoax ever in this nation’s political history. One only has to examine their many disrespectful challenges to the decisions by the CCJ, by asking a lower court to set aside the decisions of the former, coupled with the phalanx of political mercenaries and other related desperadoes, as they sought to bring the judicial laws into disrepute. Jagdeo and his party lost all their disrespectful appeals. Maybe Yusuf should explain just what was the master strategy in such deceptive and fraudulent attempts on the judiciary. For Yusuf’s information and guidance – no master strategist is ever allowed to tinker with the laws of his/her country, for deceptive ends. In the end, their ‘alternative facts’ and devious distortions are defeated. How come that Yusuf’s ‘master strategist’ did not know this?

What can be so ‘master strategist’ of Jagdeo, for deliberately plotting, since 2015, to seize power by fraudulent means which could have resulted in a horrific social implosion, had it not been for the steady, calm helmsman in the person of President Granger, and sections of a population that showed great maturity? What kind of senior political leader, Yusuf’s master strategist, and the holder of the constitutional office of leader of the parliamentary opposition, whose many public statements, of a racist content, are aimed at creating the conditions for a social crisis; and whose tactics have been clearly aimed at stymieing vital government socio-economic projects, aimed at bringing much-needed improvements in communities and their citizens to a halt?; What master strategist, in the true sense of its meaning and application to a political milieu, would want to advise his strongholds, their NDCs, to refuse critical social projects, such as the refusal of 200 street lights by the Corriverton local authorities that will enhance security in that locale? Are these acts, a microcosm, the ‘par excellence’ of a ‘matchless leader of the Guyanese people? ‘And just where in the ‘international community’ have these ‘complimentary remarks’ been made, and are still being made? If Yusuf can direct me to which internationally reputable media that has given such praises, then I will show him the pathway through which Saddam Hussein will return from the Great Beyond, to be president of Iraq; again, with full forgiveness from the numerous Iraqis who suffered death and other repression during his iron rule.

But the answers to the other questions are simple: by a political leader whose only contribution to this country as president was the creation of a criminal state, with the most unspeakable acts of state criminality ever committed, oversaw a state policy of socio-ethnic discrimination; fostered ethnic marginalisation; and this is extended to the destruction of freedoms and the rule of law, and the compromising of state institutions. Where is the master strategist in a leader who has an unenviable record of insulting and disrespecting the nation by language that reflects a personality who is politically immoral, and uncultured in his daily public communications?

No master strategist will constantly bait sections of this nation, knowing fully well the catastrophic possibilities of such political ignorance, and the tragic consequences that can ensue. Neither will any master strategist, add any political carat to his persona by such a notorious political baggage that continues to drag him deeper into the political morass of his own making. By such disgusting toadying, Yusuf continues to reveal his true political self and what are his beliefs.
Regards
Earl Hamilton