Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall has said there are active efforts to once again link the governing People’s Progressive Party to extrajudicial killings in Guyana.
He believes the moves are being made to discredit the party, and to turn some sections of the population away from it, ahead of the upcoming elections.
At an Emancipation Day celebration last week, APNU Presidential Candidate, Aubrey Norton, said if his party is to take government, a widespread investigation will commence into extrajudicial killings in Guyana dating back to the crime wave of the early 2000’s, where a sitting Government Minister was also killed, but there was no proper investigation.
During his weekly “Issues In the News” programme, Mr. Nandlall, said the statement by Mr. Norton might be to drum up support, recalling that such a promise was made in 2015, but no inquiry was undertaken by the coalition government.
“Granger himself as President, was asked frontally about this long line of extrajudicial killings that the spoke about when they were in Opposition, that they promised that they would inquire into, and here it is four years into his government he is admitting that there is no evidence of these same killings that they are now again promising reopen. This level of duplicity, deceit and rank doltishness is what I am speaking about,” a worked-up, Mr. Nandlall said.
Violence was unleashed in several communities across the country following the February 2002 jail break, and the two main political parties- the PPP and PNC, have been casting blame on each other for the violence and killings.
The PPP was in government at the time, when police officers were deployed to certain villages and was accused of terrorizing and even killing persons.
Those issues formed a substantial part of the 2015 elections campaign. Mr. Nandlall sad the PPP has also been opened to those investigations, and said he was also looking forward to the investigations of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.
“Relentless attempts were made to implicate the PPP and me in particular in Crum-Ewing’s killing and that is why I bit the bullet and I call upon them on this programme and wrote it on many articles, calling upon them to hold the inquiry, they never did,” Mr. Nandlall said.
According to the Attorney General, every time there is a killing of a certain nature, persons are quick to point fingers at the PPP government.
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