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Benschop takes tape to Eve Leary
Activist Mark Benschop stick a copy of the taped conversation between the gates at the office of the Police of Commissioner.
Mark Benschop yesterday staked out the Eve Leary offices of the Police Commissioner, narrowly escaping possible arrest.
It was part of his continued campaign to “seek justice” over a sex tape involving a teenager and Kwame McCoy, Information Liaison to the President.
While there was no sign of Police Commissioner Henry Greene, Benschop’s presence in front of the Eve Leary office was not without drama as police ranks threw up barricades and attempts were made to detain the protestor.
Yesterday’s action by Benschop was one of several he mounted over the past days to force Government to act on a tape which is said to feature the voice of McCoy and a teenager. The 15-year-old is being solicited for sex.
Speaking with reporters in front of the Commissioner’s officer, Benschop lashed out urging Government and the police to stop portraying McCoy as the victim.
“Julius is the victim here. What is the commissioner doing? Why was Kwame McCoy allowed to leave Guyana? If it were another citizen, they would have been blacklisted.”
According to Benschop, the matter is a serious one yet there is silence from government.
“I am willing to be the chief witness in any investigation regarding this tape.”
He responded to statements by government’s spokesman, Dr Roger Luncheon, who on Thursday said that other issues have surfaced including wiretapping, entrapment and extortion and all these warrant an investigation.
Benschop expressed no surprise at Luncheon’s statements and even claimed that there were attempts to bribe the teenager to keep his silence.
With no signs of the Commissioner, the activist stuck a copy of the recording between the gates below the office of the Commissioner. Nobody made a move to pick it up and eventually newspaper columnist, Freddie Kissoon, who was there, was forced to retrieve it from the ground where it had fallen.
A police officer, out of uniform, came out and inquired from Benschop his reason for being there.
“I am here this morning to give Commissioner Greene a copy of the tape.”
However, the officer advised Benschop that there is a procedure for doing things.
He declined to take a copy of the tape for himself or to the Commissioner of Police.
Even while the police officer was speaking to the activist, barriers were speedily thrown up from Parade Street and from Camp Road and it seemed police were getting ready for action.
However, Benschop had decided that he had delivered his message and was proceeding to Parade Street where his vehicle was parked when several ranks clad in khaki uniforms swiftly moved towards him.
They were ordered to stand down by the officer who had first spoken to Benschop.
Yesterday’s action by the activist was one of several. Last week, he visited the Ministry of Human Services, Ministry of Home Affairs and Office of the President.
During visits to the Human Services and Home Affairs Ministries, he had used a music vending cart to play the CD.
Benschop has admitted that he made the recording of the teenager called Julius and McCoy a few weeks ago after complaints were made to him by the boy’s relatives.
The call was placed from Benschop’s office to the Office of the President where McCoy works.
On the tape, a voice purportedly belonging to McCoy was heard telling Julius that sex with a man is like sex with a woman.
President Bharat Jagdeo has since said that he will be looking in to the matter.
McCoy has since applied for annual leave and has reportedly gone to Brazil.
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