– Nascimento

WELL-KNOWN Communications Consultant and civil society activist Kit Nascimento has condemned a public attack against him by agents of the political Opposition for speaking out against their continued focus on racial politics that climaxed with recent incendiary remarks made by Executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Tacuma Ogunseye.

In a letter to the editor, Nascimento argued that Ogunseye went more than just “a little too far,” when he made several inflammatory statements that ranged from inciting violence to promoting racial division when he spoke at a public meeting at Buxton, East Coast Demerara last month.

The remarks received widespread backlash, and Nascimento in commenting on the issue, questioned attempts by the Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R) Aubrey Norton to downplay the severity of racially incendiary remarks.

However, following his letter, political supporters including WPA Executive, Dr. David Hinds, and PNC/R supporter, Rickford Burke, who both live in the United States, have initiated attacks against Nascimento.

In a video statement responding to the comments by Dr. Hinds and Burke, Nascimento begged the question of how Ogunseye could be so free to make the statements he did in Buxton at a public meeting which threatened to implicate Guyana’s security forces.

Nascimento said Ogunseye’s party was part of the David Granger-led government which threatened Guyana’s democracy in 2020 during a five-month stalemate.
“The entire democratic world and every Guyanese committed to democracy… ensured that the APNU/AFC/WPA coup attempt failed and that they duly elected government of the People’s Progressive Party took office,” Nascimento said.

“Men like Rickford Burke and David Hind, both of whom do not even live in Guyana but live and work as American citizens in the US along with men, like Ogunseye in Guyana were, in fact, actively involved in supporting the attempt to deny the recognition of a democratic government.”

The veteran communications expert accused the men of continuing to push an agenda which is not good for preserving unity in Guyana.
“Burke and Hinds are traitors into the country of their birth pursuing from another country a racist agenda to divide, a multi-racial country,” Nascimento said.
“Hinds and Burke, and the few like them live in a very dark place. I’ve called them dangerous men, not because I believed them to be in themselves dangerous, but because they embrace and espouse dangerous intentions. Hines and Burke need to wake up and smell the coffee.”

He said Burke displays ignorance by describing him [Nacimento] as a descendant of white planters. Nascimento said his ancestors were indentured labourers from Madeira.
Nascimento called on both Hinds and Burke to return to Guyana, give up their American citizenship, contest an election and see how many Guyanese will follow them.

“Hinds accuses me of defending the few while he claims to represent the many. I invite him to come home to Guyana, give up their American citizenship, contest a general election, and let’s see how many Guyanese they rarely represent,” Nascimento said.