Roger Khan must face the consequences

Jun 13, 2008 News

– President Bharrat Jagdeo

Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo is adamant that accused drug baron Shaheed “Roger” Khan should face the might of the law if he is found guilty.
Jagdeo was responding to a question posed by CWN’s John Mair in London as the President wrapped up a visit there following the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
Jagdeo said that if Khan is found guilty of murder in addition to cocaine smuggling, he should face the penalty either in the US or Guyana.

“If he comes back to Guyana, he will have to face the consequences,” the President said.
The President, in the meantime, has also chided the United States Government for being less than forthcoming in sharing their information and intelligence on Khan.
Khan is facing drug charges in a Brooklyn, New York court. He had at one time boasted of having connections to the ruling party and admitted that he ran a phantom death squad.
On crime in general, Jagdeo said that some Guyanese newspapers were “obsessed with morbidity” and needed to be more responsible in reporting of crime in his country.
He assured Guyanese at a meeting of the UK Diaspora at the Guyana High Commission in London that it was perfectly safe for any member of the UK Diaspora to consider coming home, especially for CARIFESTA in August.
By 2011, Jagdeo, 44, will have served two full terms and more as President of Guyana, and like the US President George W. Bush, is constitutionally term-limited.
Asked to dream beyond 2011, the President told CWN, “I would like to stay in Guyana and serve my country in some way but I want to do some international work. It keeps you from getting intellectually sterile.”
– And asked to anoint a successor as the next President of Guyana, he was coy and resolutely refused to endorse any of the major candidates vying for the PPP/C nomination in three years’ time.