Clandestine video footage... President has already blown cover of Buxton informants - PNCR

Clandestine video footage… President has already blown cover of Buxton informants – PNCR

Jul 05, 2008 News

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday announced that an apparent strategy by President Bharrat Jagdeo to not blow the cover of persons in Buxton who have purportedly filmed criminals together with key figures in society has already failed.
According to the party, it evidently has not occurred to Jagdeo that, even in revealing that he got information from informers in Buxton, he has already blown their cover.
President Jagdeo, during a recent press briefing, had announced that he was in possession of video tapes that contained gripping evidence of the ‘Fine Man’ (Rondell Rawlins) Gang operating on East Coast Demerara.
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.”
One his return to Guyana, the President said that the video footage existed even before the Lusignan massacre.
However, the tape was not released because it would have compromised the clandestine operation that led to the footage being obtained.
He explained that some of the footage was taken from houses in Buxton, and a release of the tape would have shown the angle from which it was taken.
The other set of footage was taken by informants who had hidden cameras and who were sitting next to the criminals.
“If we make that public, you would betray who the informants were and the houses from which the surveillance was taken. But clearly, when the faces were extracted from the footage and they were available to the security forces, (the forces) went looking at them even before Lusignan,” Jagdeo said.
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Robert Corbin, subsequently 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…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 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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