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Video footage evidence of gunmen in Buxton…
Why were they not arrested before massacres? – Corbin
“Why is it that the Joint Services could not use the footage of gunmen in Buxton to apprehend them before those innocent people were massacred in Lusignan and Bartica?” asks Leader of the main opposition party, Robert Corbin.
He was responding to Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo, who made the utterance during a recent press conference in New York.
At that press conference, President Jagdeo said that the security forces are in possession of video tapes that contain gripping evidence of the ‘Fine Man’ (Rondell Rawlins) Gang operating on the East Coast.
He went on to say that when the footage is released, “You are going to see some very damning things come out about linkages. I know for sure, because I see the security forces’ reports…Now I have seen a lot of political figures are linked, too.”
Corbin, however, denounced the claims by Jagdeo, saying that he has been hearing about video footages ever since the time when the late President Desmond Hoyte was in office.
He added that even if footage did exist, then it should not be used for political propaganda. Rather, it should have been used to aid in the apprehension of the criminals.
“Someone should therefore be held accountable. If he (Jagdeo) is boasting that there is footage of these criminals in Buxton, somebody has been careless and negligent.”
He posited that any footage of criminals in Buxton should be used for their apprehension, and not for political propaganda.
Corbin also told media operatives that, following the Lusignan massacre, he was informed that attempts were made to manufacture footage for propaganda purposes.
“If indeed the security forces could boast of having this footage, why is it that they haven’t caught these criminals in all this time….All of this, I believe, is to divert from the real issues facing this country, (including) the revelations of the Roger Khan Saga…What have they done with this information? We have no evidence that they have done anything with it.”
He also vehemently denies the allegation that he or any of his party members had any contact with any alleged gunmen.
Corbin, further, questioned the President’s position on the fact that any such footage has not been released.
Jagdeo is quoted in the media as saying, “We have not released those (footage) because the angle from which the pictures were taken would betray who took the pictures; but at some point in time I feel we may have to (release the tapes), when hopefully we clean up the gang.”
Corbin also issued another challenge to the administration to produce any such footage, if it exists.
The security forces had previously released some photographs of six wanted men whom they say were filmed in Buxton during a clandestine operation.
Among the men fingered in the released photographs were the now dead 17-year-old Otis Fiffee, called Mud Up; Cecil Ramcharran, 42, also called Uncle Willie; Robin Chung, called Chung Boy, 16; and a man called Pan Head, who turned himself in to the Police and was released.
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