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Oct 15, 2013 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Please allow me to make a few observations that point to our eroding freedoms as citizens of this dear land.
Two recent incidents have convinced me that the PPP is panicking and is forging ahead into dictatorship mode.
I read with horror the statements made by Dr. Roger Luncheon, threatening to take action against persons protesting the situations at schools. His statements amount to a threat to the constitutional rights of Guyanese to protest peacefully.
It seems as though the PPP is hell bent on outlawing protest; they tried it under Janet Jagan.
Yet our Opposition sits down and allows this threat to go unanswered. Maybe they will wait until the government makes good on the threat then they will act.
Another scary scenario presented itself last week when a young man was locked up by the police allegedly on the instruction of a government minister.
Since when is it a crime to heckle a minister in public?
I believe that once no threat was made, there was no need for the young man to be arrested. So far, I have not heard of any charges.
And this speaks volumes of the way the police dispenses justice in this country. There have been many suggestions that the Guyana Police Force is being politically directed. For me, these are no longer suggestions; these are facts.
What is more alarming is that this time it is not the Home Affairs Minister who is directing the Guyana Police Force. By the way, one would think that to clear his name, Minister Rohee would have issued a statement on the matter, since it points directly to something that he has been denying for some time. Or maybe he can direct the work of a contractor working on a government contract, or he can remove an Ambassador from his posting. It could be that that is how our cabinet works.
I am still to hear Mr. Brumell address the issue, which will certainly come back to haunt the Force, especially with the proposed setting up of a SWAT unit.
One has to ask the question which Minister will direct the SWAT unit?
Andrew Sealey
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