Dear Editor
I AM exercising my right to respond to this ongoing series of Frederick Kissoon who launched an attack on me. Reference is made to his column in Kaieteur News, “Jagdeo’s libel, Nigel Hughes, my research, my life” (6th May 2020). Let me advise Kissoon, that whereas he said he has no respect for me “as a person and a trade unionist,” this would be hard for him to do. He has no respect for himself as a person and the academic community with whom he associates and therefore can have no respect for any other. He doesn’t know what constitutes respect.
When it comes to respect, the feeling is mutual with my fellow pensioner. He is not upright and any little respect I had for him I lost it a long time. He was tolerated because our paths crossed on common issues, even though I came to realise he is a bully, disrespectful and untrustworthy. Basically, he lives in a crab-hole, that is where his mind dwells.,
I had respected him as an intellectual until I realised he is an intellectuasl non-entity, a cheat, a plagiarist, a self-admitted thief of academic materials. Which proper so-called champion of the people would steal academic materials, depriving the less fortunate who would have been relying on said materials for their academic advancement? Kissoon is selfish and self-absorbed.
He had no shame telling this nation that he stole text books and felt it was ok to so do, showing no regret, no remorse. He has no shame telling this nation GECOM Chairperson Justice Claudette Singh volunteered to and paid his “whopping grocery bill,” but he continues to attack her integrity even as she engages in efforts to facilitate a recount to resolve the political impasse. He has said, “Since March 4, Singh has destroyed her legal legacy and her national credibility” (25th March, 2020- Claudette Singh paid for my groceries and I was convinced).
The credibility expert of zero credibility knows who has no credibility. His credibility was destroyed long ago and he is not qualified to judge people in the way he wants to do. In some societies Kissoon would be living in perpetual shame for his many acts of impropriety. In our society he is allowed to shout at the top of his voice, passing judgment on people.
This is the man who was issued a grant by the University of Guyana (UG) to conduct research, failed to do so, and refused to return that funding. Whereas he claimed that he did not lose his job at UG, he does not acknowledge the intervention that caused him to be retained in spite of this misconduct.
I am too decent for him and knew it all along. In his usual style he lies again. I may not know the day-to-day operations of UG or other institutions, but when it comes to industrial relations I am well versed. His services at UG were not terminated due to labour’s representation on the council. I was the representative. The management oversight of due process, which yours truly pointed out, caused the council not to recommend the severing of his service. His hide was saved by the UG upholding time-honoured principles.
We must not buy the nonsensical argument that Freddie cannot reveal the conditions of the so-called non-disclosure agreement he signed with Bharrat Jagdeo that caused the libel suit brought by the latter to be dropped. What does he have to hide, because evidently Jagdeo was the one who had brought the lawsuit? What did he sign to get Jagdeo to withdraw the lawsuit? Let him tell this nation what is the quid pro quo. He is afraid to do so because he is beholden to Jagdeo.
Freddie is not a confidential person. My grandmother used to call his personality type Lickmouth Lou. Even when people talk to him in private he puts it out in public, but he wants to keep his secret when he can’t keep other people’s issues secret. He has no secret for me. I never trusted him and anything I said to him in private I had no problem with him coming to the public with. Readers of his column could recall the numerous times personal conversations people shared with him, he placed in the public domain.
Finally, let me say to Freddie, there is no need for me to “paint [his] character with mud,” he lives in a crab-hole, so mud is all he knows. There is no need to sling mud on him. As to the recent industrial impasse at UG, it is a matter of public record, which he shared, of the role he played.
Regards
Lincoln Lewis
Source: https://issuu.com/guyanachroniclee-paper/docs/guyana_chronicle_epaper_05_07_2020