Kamla's Flying Circus....
.by Phillip Edward Alexander on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 7:36pm.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, please direct your attention to the center ring where you are about to see the magic art of illusion like you have never seen before....Lies will be told and retold as if they were the truth...Grand Pianos will disappear and reappear before your very eyes....People will be employed by nobody to head the highest security job in the land with magical qualifications from out of this world...Ministers will be shuffled around WITHOUT an actual reshuffle....and much, much more...
It seems like the entire country is now one big top tent with high flying trapeze performers twirling overhead while magicians mystify on every street corner; we the people have become the audience, have jettisoned our collective reason and are left watching the unfolding spectacle wide eyed in awe with a collective suspension of disbelief.
Did Empress Kamla really look into the cameras and tell the nation 'now that Reshmi has resigned move on?'
Has she gone mad?
The questions that are being asked HAVE to be answered and answered to the complete satisfaction of the people who pay her salary, chief among these being:
Who recommended Miss Ramnarine to the SIA in the first place?
Who hired her without checking the veracity of her credentials?
Who recommended that she be promoted over many senior and seasoned operatives despite her lack of experience and necessary qualifications?
Did she commit a crime by submitting fraudulent credentials?
Who told Cabinet Ministers to lie?
And who is going to be fired for this fiasco?
Because like it or not, someone has to be fired over a catastrophe of this magnitude.
The Government that camapaigned on the promise of having ALL of the answers for everything ailing the country now appear in the bright light of day to have none.
Not one, and the list of accomplishments that are read out over and over by them and their supporters could have been done over the summer holidays by a temp; if the Government appeared inept and off balanced during the embarrassing missing piano fiasco, they are now looking downright foolish and comical.
So who is to blame?
The one common thread throughout all of this appear to be none other than legal luminary to the stars and sati- draped caped-crusader - (taaa daaa) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan (flourish and a bow), which makes me ask (because someone has to), why does this man still have a job?
You Anand, despite being surrounded in Cabinet by some mystical creatures (who possess amazing powers of zaniness in their own right), you Sir are Kamla's Flying Circus' Main Attraction.
You have become the spectacle we are all waiting to see, and your oftentimes comical inability to function in the position you were appointed to is becoming obvious to even blind Party supporters.
The list of failures on your watch are too long for eight short months and they really shouldn't and ought not to be excused any further.
The proper and decent thing to do when you realize that you are in over your head my friend, is to come clean to yourself and to others.
Admitting the problem is the first step.
Anand, for what remains of your integrity, for the national psyche and for the good of our beloved country, follow Reshmi's glowing example and do the right thing and resign.
Before you bring the whole damned Big Top Circus right down with you...
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