Dear Editor,
The Opposition, rightfully speaking, Azruddin Mohamed, is at the forefront of another brouhaha, championing the cause of some Indian immigrant workers whom he claims have been discriminated against by the company that hired them. The owner of the quarry is an entrepreneur from India who brought them here to work for him.
Mohamed describes their treatment as inhumane and tantamount to the slavery conditions Indians suffered here during the indenture period; this public nuisance is getting a lot of airtime before he wears that orange jumpsuit.
Presently, Mohamed revels in the thought that he has become the workers’ saviour, freeing them from the greedy expatriate owner of the quarry. Both he and APNU see this as payback for the PPP/C’s alleged role in bringing them here to vote for that party. As a consequence, the PNC is glad to see the Indians go.
The WIN party, on the other hand, have been a public nuisance ever since, looking into every nook and cranny where they can stir up trouble and, in the ensuing melee, cause the Government to be viewed through a negative lens. However, Azruddin Mohamed did not take into consideration the fact that, by calling the Government out on the Indians’ case, he would also be exposing himself as a greedy, exploitative quarry owner.
He placed himself snugly under the microscope because the pertinent facts reveal that he was also the owner of a quarry that hired local workers. Those workers, who were mainly Afro-Guyanese, when they asked for a higher income, were met with the racial insults of their father.
Ironically, from that same gene pool of voters, Mohamed captured most of his votes; he captured a large percentage of the African votes that propelled him into the main opposition position. I shudder to think what might be going through the minds of the PNC/APNU supporters at this time.
Before I go, I shall posit the following to my waiting audience:
Why did APNU allow the Haitians to leave our shores and be chaperoned to Brazil? I think the party would have been better served if they had stayed to cast a ballot for APNU; they could have kept them here to practice their own form of “Apaan jhaat.” Just asking?
Is Azruddin really this concerned opposition leader, or is he the most opportunistic politician who changes his stance at the most advantageous times? I am convinced that he is an opportunist based on his actions. He is encouraged by APNU to act as a nuisance, and so far, he is doing a pretty good job.
To Coretta Macdonald, who encouraged the teachers to strike indefinitely, are your eyes now wide open to the fact that you and the teachers were being used by Azruddin Mohamed? Instead of bringing the Government down, that strike lifted Mohamed up into stardom, to the point where the teachers voted for him, much to the destruction of their own party. Have you taken note of the salary scale of those immigrant workers against that of the locals? Is the union being fair to the teachers? Before you rise again to make a fool of yourself, think before you act; look at what you have done to our teachers.
And to my friends in the PNC/APNU, if you keep playing that supporting role strategy, very soon your party will be a passing memory.
I close by saying karma has come to haunt the opposition full circle; they just keep embarrassing themselves time and time again.