Georgetown : The ruling The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in a statement calls on the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) to summons opposition leader David Granger to address the COI concerning the assassination of Dr Walter Rodney. The party claims that Granger and the PNC must have a wealth of information that would be useful to the Commission’s work.
The PNC and Granger should not be ashamed that their past record will be revealed to the hundreds of thousands of Guyanese especially the youths of Guyana. The Party is reminded of Granger’s statement (while he had been campaigning for the leadership of the PNC that his membership in the PNC goes back to over frothy years.) In this respect Granger would have much to contribute to the Commission of Inquiry (COI).
“The PPP is very concerned that the People’ National Congress, while stating that it will not participate in the inquiry, is now going to all lengths to discredit and disrupt the Commission from executing its constitutional mandate.
The PNC continues to use their non-participation in drafting the Terms Of Reference (TORs) as a red herring for their non-participation in the Commission of Inquiry.
Moreover, having failed to convince the Rodney family to effect changes to the TORs of the Commission they then sought to discredit Commissioners Cheltenham and Jairam, claiming that these two respected and learned gentlemen were “anti PNC”.
Further, PNC Chairman, Basil Williams tried to cast aspersions on the methodology of the hearings, claiming that evidence being given in persons who lived through those days is mere hearsay.
These antics by the PNC is clearly aimed at confusing the public, however, already we have seen how the testimony of WPA activist Karen DeSouza’s was damning to the PNC.”
The PPP also shared its concerns of the disappearance of several vital police files covering the period leading up to the Rodney assassination as an impediment to full disclosure on the Rodney murder.
A similar disappearance of copies of the Mirror newspapers published during that period has been discovered at the New Guyana Company Ltd. A former senior reporter at the Mirror, now a practicing attorney and member of the opposition, had at one time unfettered access to these historic publications.
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