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Feb 25, 2016 News
Recent events in Guyana involving Kwame McCoy, the former Information Liaison to Presidents Bharrat
Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar, have caused a France-based Guyanese to reflect on how lucky he is to have escaped harm.
Clifton Stewart who was gun butted by Kwame McCoy in 2011 during the run up to the General Elections, told this newspaper from his base in France that he is reading with interest about the happenings in his homeland which he was forced to flee due to the threats he was receiving subsequent to the gun butt attack.
According to reports, the altercation between McCoy and Stewart stemmed from an argument on D‘Urban Street, Lodge in relation to the removal of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) campaign posters.
It is alleged that during the argument, McCoy struck Stewart in the head with a gun and threatened him.
After a trial that lasted almost one year, McCoy was convicted for assaulting Stewart and fined $70,000 by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
But according to Stewart, the matter did not end there. McCoy and his cohorts kept terrorising him.
“He had people come looking for me. I had to be moving from house to house-over the river and even to Berbice,” Stewart said via telephone.
Apart from being convicted for assaulting Stewart, McCoy was also fined for threatening him.
It was alleged that McCoy told Stewart that he was a marked man and should watch himself.
Stewart said that after McCoy was convicted, he again threatened Stewart who said that he took those threats seriously, since at the time the President’s spokesman appeared to be untouchable.
“I could not go to the police; it would not make sense,” he told this newspaper.
And he may be right because it was only after six years and a change of government that McCoy and his cohorts were charged for the assault on newspaper columnist and former University Lecturer, Freddie Kissoon.
In fact, the police are now belatedly pressing forward with McCoy’s alleged assault on social activist and a one time associate of Kissoon, Mark Benschop, which occurred in 2012.
Stewart said that when he heard that McCoy was being questioned in relation to the murder of Courtney Crum Ewing, chills ran down his spine.
Despite holding McCoy and three other persons for almost a week, the police seem unable to find enough evidence to link them to Crum Ewing’s murder.
“I was a one-man protestor, too, and I am thinking what could have happened to me,” Stewart said.
He did not indicate if he would be returning to Guyana anytime soon.
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