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Oct 31, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
The recent publishing of an alleged conversation between the Chief Legal Officer of our Government and a reporter from your newspaper needs immediate investigation by the Police, the competent authority. But based on the fact that it has been established by no other person than the COP himself, (in the Ashni Singh traffic matter) that there are different protocols applied to investigating what may amount to unlawful conduct by some important Guyanese as would normally be applied to the ordinary Guyanese, it is a foregone conclusion that no proper investigation will be done.
I may be wrong, for someone in the Police Force may have already applied to the relevant service provider to have the AG’s phone records so that it can be established if the call lasted the length of time the transcript suggests. (Yeah, right! One can still dream I guess).
So in this existing matter, who can be trusted to independently and objectively investigate this matter and more so, who instigates the investigation? We know the Government with its established posture, will not! We can be sure that the COP will not, due to the perceived belief that the true protocol that attends investigations will not be applied. Irrespective of the report made by Glenn Lall to the Police, I am sure that nothing much will come of it and I am also sure that many Guyanese share my view.
So, where does that leave us as a nation? To ask for help from influential Nations.
I am not convinced that the political opposition has the ability or the wherewithal to present a successful case internationally thereby causing some sanction to be applied that would preclude additional steps by the Government to harm Glenn Lall or cause such economic hardship, that the Kaieteur News will find it difficult to continue in business.
So where does that leave us? We seem not to have any leaders with the integrity, vision or motivational powers to take action that would ensure the protection of the nation from those that walk the halls of power. This has caused them to lose the knowledge that they are accountable to we the people.
It is clear and not just based on the present expose, that there are moves afoot to cause at least the closure of the KN but with the knowledge that the Government has influence with the underworld, anything could happen to Glenn Lall, Adam Harris and staff.
By the way, I am not convinced that the slaying of the Pressmen some years ago was motivated and executed by ordinary criminals. There was something about it that was meant to create fear and a send a not so subtle, sinister message in that dastardly act.
We need international help badly and now before all decency, as we know it, evaporates through the shedding of more blood of the outspoken innocents and incorruptible.
M. London
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May 13, 2024
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