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PNCR says… Corbin will be protected by any means necessary
The People’s National Congress Reform, at its statutory press briefing yesterday, announced that the party will take all measures necessary and required to protect its Leader, Robert Corbin.
The party acknowledged that it was now in the public domain that following last week’s press briefing, that Corbin received an anonymous phone call “which in essence said that if Mr. Corbin does not desist from talking about Roger Khan he would be killed.”
During that press briefing, Corbin had stated that the findings in the trial of Roger Khan had again dramatised the fact that the People’s Progressive Party Civic could not have been unaware of his extensive “narco-related’ activities.
During that press briefing, Corbin had said, too, that the American Government has now revealed that the organisation headed by Roger Khan had not only exported cocaine to that country, but was responsible for the deaths of over 200 individuals.
It was as a result of the disclosures emanating from the US court case involving Khan that the parliamentary opposition parties had issued a call for the re-opening of the inquiry into the death squads in Guyana.
“The response of the PPP has been to deny all knowledge of Roger Khan and his activities…The evidence, however, points in the opposite direction… When Roger Khan was arrested in Suriname, in 2006, the Suriname Minister of Justice and Police, Chanrikapersad Santokhi, revealed that Suriname had exchanged information about Roger Khan with the Government of Guyana.”
The party had also announced during the contentious press briefing that Khan himself had announced that “during the crime spree in 2002 I (Khan) worked closely with the crime-fighting sections of the Guyana Police Force and provided them with assistance and information at my own expense…My participation was instrumental in curbing crime during this period”.
According to Corbin, any normal person would query how an individual would be able to carry out major activities with the police force of a country, and the government to not know that this was taking place.
He continued that when Khan was arrested in 2002 at Good Hope, one of the men who were arrested along with him was a serving policeman. Further, the computer which was in the possession of Khan, at that time, was one which could only be purchased by a government.
“The evidence is clear that not only did the Jagdeo Administration know of Roger Khan, but it also aided and abetted his nefarious activities.”
Corbin subsequently announced that calls of that nature would not silence him, that he would continue to speak out on all of the issues affecting the Guyanese people, including the killing of several between 2002 and 2004, by the phantom death squad.
Roger Khan has purportedly been identified as a leading figure responsible for the formation and sustenance of the notorious gang.
This newspaper has learnt that following the alleged death threat, a prominent businessman was arrested and subsequently released.
“The PNCR wishes it to be understood that the Party, as well as its Leader, will not be intimidated and driven into silence by threats to the Leader.”
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