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Mar 26, 2014 News
…to benefit interior licenced firearm holders
Efforts are being put in place to make it easier for licenced firearms holders in the interior to access ammunition from the authorised establishment.
This assurance was given by Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee in response to a question from Alliance For Change (AFC) Parliamentarian June Marcello.
The query by the opposition Member of Parliament to the Home Affairs Minister comes at a time when the opposition is maintaining its no confidence stance on Rohee.
In August 2012, the opposition, which has a majority in the National Assembly had passed a motion of no confidence against Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.
A week later, Opposition Leader David Granger said that the coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) would withhold all support from the Minister as it seeks to pressure him into resigning.
“We will not cooperate with Rohee. We have no confidence in his ability to maintain that portfolio and we will not cooperate with him,” Granger had stated.
He reiterated that position in November last year, declaring that his coalition will continue to vote against any piece of legislation taken to the House by the current Minister of Home Affairs.
Granger went further by stating that the Partnership intends to lobby civil society groups to call on the Minister to demit office, especially in wake of the rising crime problem in the country.
In fact, the Opposition refused to support a Bill, which Rohee had attempted to table in the National Assembly. The important Bill was eventually approved only after it was re-tabled by one of the Minister’s colleagues in the National Assembly, Attorney General Anil Nandlall.
AFC MP Marcello in her query to the Minister had expressed that licenced firearm holders are having great difficulties in obtaining ammunition. Why? Because, according to Marcello, licenced firearm holders in Region Eight especially, have been told that they cannot obtain ammunition if their weapons do not have ballistics markings.
She said that this situation is very worrying since it will cost them $48,000 to travel to Georgetown to obtain ballistics marks for their guns, since the process is centralised in Georgetown at the Criminal Investigations Department.
“Can the Minister send a team to Region 8 once a year to help firearm holders to obtain ballistic marks? Can selected police stations and/or outposts in Region 8 stock ammunition for sale to licenced holders of firearms?” the Member of Parliament asked.
In response, Minister Rohee explained that in 2005 a decision was taken to ensure that the weapons of all licenced firearm holders are test-fired and the records kept of the relevant ballistic markings. This process is being executed on a phased basis.
Rohee assured that the difficulties that may have been or are likely to be experienced by licenced firearm holders in remote areas are being addressed by his Ministry in consultation with the Guyana Police Force.
With respect to the sale of ammunition, which is also centralised at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Rohee acknowledged that licenced firearm dealers are not located in the interior areas, hence the reason for some of the difficulties being experienced by licenced forearm holders.
“The Ministry of Home Affairs will initiate action to ensure that the Guyana Police Force implement a viable system where ammunition could be made available to licenced firearm holders in Region 8 and other interior locations, taking into consideration also the security implications of the exercise,” the Minister stated.
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