Nagamootoo amongst the delusional who have Jagdeo on their brain

Blaming President Ramotar for the non-renewal of Freddie Kissoon’s contract to lecture at UG by the University Council, Moses Nagamootoo screamed that this was former President BharratJagdeo’s doing from his “political grave”. The ranks of the delusional that have Jagdeo on their brain have swollen. But for Nagamootoo, the condition is more understandable.

His delusion, after all, is long entrenched. Way back in memory lane, on some foray into the Rupununi, Nagamootoo claims he heard what no one then or since heard: Cheddi promised him the leadership of the PPP. It’s a clear sign of delusion when a person starts to hear voices. It might be a symptom of an even more serious mental disorder, but later for that.
Then the obsession with Jagdeo. Here’s a man believing he will be leader, just doesn’t begin to spruce up his appearance and speak with an affected accent – he quits his Cheddi-bestowed government job and starts law school. A big, grown man in his 50s going back to school with teenagers! Now that’s unbridled ambition. And after all the slogging and humiliation, Jagdeo becomes president! Ouch!
It’s enough to make a grown man weep and gnash his teeth. So Nagamootoo jumps the PPP ship and joins the AFC with the promise from ‘friend’ Ramjattan he will become ‘Vice-President!’ Unfortunately, as President Ramotar predicted in his home village of Whim, he got “larwah”! Trotman and APNU checkmated him on the Speakership and his erstwhile buddy Ramjattan checkmated him from even an executive position in the AFC, much less “leader”. Who’s in the “political grave”?
But in his unbridled attack on President Ramotar and Jagdeo for Kissoon’s termination of contract, Nagamootoo betrays his lack of legal experience or training in law. He should have listened to the more circumspect response of his colleague Ramjattan who had taken him into chambers. Ramjattan, Kissoon’s self-declared ‘close friend’ merely allowed that if the employment contract has been breached, he would assist Kissoon in court. If it were breached. Nagamootoo’s another legal novice who’s never going to make senior counsel!