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PM Golding’s Administration is boxed-in on Dudus/Manatt Enquiry
Prime Minister Bruce Golding may be walking the political tight ropes in setting up the Commission of Enquiry into the Christopher “Dudus” Coke Extradition/Mannatt, Phelps and Phillips matter. However, if he is successful in getting through the process without more personal political damage than he has already suffered, it could mean he would finally have a path to go forward.
What are the possible results of the Commission of Enquiry?
There are four or five scenarios. The fatal political blow would be if the commission found that the PM was more responsible by knowing and doing more in the Mannatt matter than he has already admitted. The politically life threatening blow would be if the PM is found to have done the things that Harold Brady claims in his lawsuit against the Prime Minister. The damage to the Jamaica Labour Party is if several of the top brass of the party are found to have known and played roles which have not as yet been acknowledged. The other possible outcome is if the Commission finds that the matter was handled badly but the PM’s acknowledgement of the situation, showed enough accountability and there is nothing more to be done.
The PM’s best outcome could be for the Commission to pronounce on whether or not the Party General Secretary, the country’s Solicitor General and the country’s Attorney General all failed in their roles, gave the PM bad information and advice and should be retired in the public interest.
That outcome would hold accountable three high profile individuals, give the country satisfaction that justice is being served, and the PM having been the only one to be contrite about it so far, rises to the top as the most honest, transparent and forthright of the lot and could have new positive wave about him.
The PM would then be strengthened by such decisions, would have been relieved of some of the political baggage he has to deal with (and he would not be the hatchet man – the Commission would be), the country would have some measure of accountability and the PM’s agenda of reform disclosed to Church leaders and members of civil society could now be focused on as the next step in a transformation process. Mannat and Dudus would be behind him - until the trial starts in New York and the tension starts to rise over again.
PM Golding’s Administration is boxed-in on Dudus/Manatt Enquiry
Prime Minister Bruce Golding may be walking the political tight ropes in setting up the Commission of Enquiry into the Christopher “Dudus” Coke Extradition/Mannatt, Phelps and Phillips matter. However, if he is successful in getting through the process without more personal political damage than he has already suffered, it could mean he would finally have a path to go forward.
What are the possible results of the Commission of Enquiry?
There are four or five scenarios. The fatal political blow would be if the commission found that the PM was more responsible by knowing and doing more in the Mannatt matter than he has already admitted. The politically life threatening blow would be if the PM is found to have done the things that Harold Brady claims in his lawsuit against the Prime Minister. The damage to the Jamaica Labour Party is if several of the top brass of the party are found to have known and played roles which have not as yet been acknowledged. The other possible outcome is if the Commission finds that the matter was handled badly but the PM’s acknowledgement of the situation, showed enough accountability and there is nothing more to be done.
The PM’s best outcome could be for the Commission to pronounce on whether or not the Party General Secretary, the country’s Solicitor General and the country’s Attorney General all failed in their roles, gave the PM bad information and advice and should be retired in the public interest.
That outcome would hold accountable three high profile individuals, give the country satisfaction that justice is being served, and the PM having been the only one to be contrite about it so far, rises to the top as the most honest, transparent and forthright of the lot and could have new positive wave about him.
The PM would then be strengthened by such decisions, would have been relieved of some of the political baggage he has to deal with (and he would not be the hatchet man – the Commission would be), the country would have some measure of accountability and the PM’s agenda of reform disclosed to Church leaders and members of civil society could now be focused on as the next step in a transformation process. Mannat and Dudus would be behind him - until the trial starts in New York and the tension starts to rise over again.
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