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It is time for Ramjattan, Nagamootoo to leave politics

It is time for Ramjattan, Nagamootoo to leave politics

Dear Editor,
A month has passed and our nation is yet to receive the results of the polling exercise conducted on March 2. At this point it is simply too embarrassing for our nation. We have a global pandemic to worry our heads over; this matter should have been resolved weeks ago; yet, here we are.
I must note that I was quite amused upon reading Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo’s calls for an international inquiry into “foreign interference” in our electoral process. In the recent edition of his Guyana Chronicle column, “My Turn”, he expressed his belief that “foreign electoral engineers and their local lackeys” have attempted to “dislodge a democratically elected government”.
Bewildered as I was, my mind was taken back to March 5th, when Mr Khemraj Ramjattan made the allegation of the PPP colluding with foreign powers to interfere in the elections. The Prime Ministerial hopeful claimed that a Libyan, an American, as well as a Russian were arrested and later deported after their “intelligence realized that there was some conspiracy to tap into GECOM’s computer system”. He added that a Russian-American was still “on the run”. He continued by claiming that Mr Bharrat Jagdeo was speaking directly to the Russians by phone.
I would go on and ask why these nationals were not tried in court before being deported, but that would be aimless. It was almost too painful to watch him (Ramjattan) make this hilarious allegation, which was clearly fed to him. While I did chuckle, at the same time, it made me realize that this is what his political career has been reduced to.
The same can be said about Mr. Nagamootoo. These were two individuals who claimed to fighting hard for the people of this country since the inception of the AFC. Now can we really call them anything but “yes men” of the PNC? I beseech these two individuals to revisit their memories of growing up under the dictatorship of the late Forbes Burnham and knowing the franchises of individuals disregarded by fraudulent electoral processes.
Both Ramjattan and Nagamootoo were followers of the late Cheddi Jagan as he fought against injustice in Guyana. Have their political careers been reduced to this: pathetically masquerading the lies that have been fed to them by the PNC?
Moreover, the AFC (led by Ramjattan) is now calling for power sharing with the PPP, while still parading the claim that the coalition won our election. It seems to me that they have realized their loss and are desperately trying to grasp on to power.
Parading these claims of foreign interference and who won is only going to feed the blind coalition followers’ hostility. Can’t Nagamootoo and Ramjattan see that they will only indirectly contribute to the political divide in this country? It is disappointing, especially since these are two individuals who braved a dictatorship in the past.
To me, when they leave office, their political careers would be reduced to an embarrassing but pathetic footnote in the history of Guyana’s politics. I strongly advise the two of them, after this election’s fiasco wraps up, to leave the field of politics entirely.
We’ve seen them enter the political arena and we have seen what power can do to them; or, in this case, say what will keep you in power. We’ve had enough of them; they both are qualified professionals, so let them actually contribute positively to our country’s wellbeing.
If the two of them had any desire to salvage what is left of their political careers, they would have come out, like their contemporary Dominic Gaskin, and condemned the now widely believed to be fraudulent results for Region 4, originally declared by Clairmont Mingo.
They could have even joined C.N. Sharma of the Justice For All Party and called for a recount. Yet they have stayed mum on the matter, only clearing up any doubts in mind that they are charlatans for the PNC.

Yours faithfully,
Nikhil Sankar

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