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Now up to PPP members to upbraid Kwame McCoy – AFC

Oct 03, 2009 News

…Constitution provides for Speaker to remove Commissioners

Provided that the comments by Dr Roger Luncheon are correct in that the removal of Kwame McCoy from the Rights of the Child Commission will have to be dealt with at the Parliamentary level, then it is now up to the members of the People’s Progressive Party to upbraid him.
This is according to Chairman of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan, who recalled that all along, the opposition parties did not approve of and fought against McCoy’s nomination and subsequent appointment to the Commission.
The members of the ruling party were greeted on the day of the debates in the National Assembly as to the suitability of the nominated commissioners with picket signs and vociferous chants chastising McCoy as a nominee more so from the Ministry of Social Services and Social Security where he holds no post.
The opposition speakers had all spoken out against him during the actual debates but with the PPP/C having the majority of seats in the House he was eventually approved.
Under the Constitution of Guyana, the Speaker of the House is the prescribed authority over the various commissions with the exception of the Human Rights Commission.
The constitution states that an officer of one of the various commissions where the Speaker of the House is the prescribed authority may be removed for his/her inability to discharge functions of his office or for misbehaviour.
The constitution also caters for the establishment of a tribunal to investigate the commissioner in question and recommendations be made to the President at which point in time he could remove an errant commissioner.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, on Thursday last, said that there have been several misguided calls for action on the part of Office of the President to remove Kwame McCoy from the Rights of the Child Commission.
A bevy of calls are being made in light of the recent taped conversation between a 15 year-old young man identified as Julius and ‘Kwame’ whom many believe to be  Kwame McCoy of the Rights of the Child Commission and Press Liaison to the President, soliciting sex from the teen.
He has since denied that the voice in the conversation is his and has proceeded on leave outside the jurisdiction.
According to Dr Luncheon, the calls for an investigation of the taped conversation are reasonable.
He said that while McCoy is claiming that the tape is a fabrication, “the way in which the matter is being dealt with by the media and other entities is of interest.”
Dr Luncheon pointed out that among the reasons to justify such an investigation is the fact that questions have now surfaced regarding its (sex tape) authenticity, as well as issues related to entrapment, wiretapping and also extortion.
He noted that in the context of the uncertainties, the strident calls for various definitive interventions to be put in place along with the media sensationalism could only undermine commitment to due process and unbiased investigation.

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