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‘The stairway to justice has collapsed’

Nov 01, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
To all Guyanese at home and abroad: go to KN-on-line and see a graphic picture of the man’s lower back and buttocks.
The police daubed kerosene and then lit a fire on the man’s buttocks. This story refers to a man charged with murder – the murder of a government supporter. (KN October 31st)
They say a picture sometimes is worth a million words. This picture will grab you, possess you and make you go crazy.
Crazy, about wanting to take to the streets, and call for President Jagdeo to finally take charge of his Government. He has been asleep at the wheels for too long. This picture if shown on all TV channels and printed in all daily newspapers will be sufficient to galvanize the whole nation to rise up and call for reform of the police and justice system.
This is torture going back to the Middle Ages. Even if the man is guilty (and the police don’t know that – they are torturing the man to get a confession) such torture has long been outlawed except in the most backward countries on planet Earth.
Pamela de Santos, attorney-at-law produced a most powerful sentence that correctly epitomizes the police and justice system: “The stairway to justice has collapsed”.
I will predict a few things: No policeman will be fired or charged. No one will go to jail. Home Affairs Minister and the Police Commissioner will be allowed to retain their jobs.
The Court is supposed to be a public place – yet the magistrate who kept out the reporters from her court will be given a pass.
And, ‘King’ Jagdeo and the man who performs Prime Ministerial duties, Roger Luncheon (though he has a different title to camouflage) will do nothing – but continue to make excuses.
What did ‘King’ Jagdeo and his Prime Minister do about the Hogg Island murders (Jainarine and Gibson – and the missing 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine) of August 11th? In most nations around the world the buck stops with the President.
In Jagdeo’s case he reverses the order. The buck stops not with Jagdeo, not with PM Luncheon, not with Minister Rohee, not with the Police Commissioner – but with low-level Crime Chief Seelall Persaud (as if this is a low-level routine crime).
Well the last thing Seelall said: “Everything is on hold, first we have to train people to operate the machines to do forensic tests”.
If this thing were not such a serious matter, you would think the Crime Chief was perpetrating some kind of a joke or a hoax on the nation.
The overwhelming majority of this small nation of 700,000 people, believe the kidnap and murder of Dwayne Kant Ramdass occurring 10 days after the murders of Jainarine and Gibson would never have happened had the Criminal Investigation Department moved with speed to investigate and arrest the culprits.
Now, three months after the Hogg Island murders police spokesman Seelall Persaud said the investigation is on hold, a euphemism for “nothing will be done”. The Guyanese law enforcement and justice system cries out for all the help it can get. But Prime Minister Luncheon doesn’t know it.
Luncheon is concerned about sovereignty and ownership of the police reform process for which he himself sought help from the British Government. Ownerhip of what?
You have nothing there man, let the British Government take over and run the police force for you. What is there for you to worry about? Afraid of re-colonization? The Brits would not re-colonize Guyana even if you pay them to do it. Luncheon has lost all sense of what century he is living in – and all sense of the paradigms that rule the world today. He is thinking of the century when Robert Clive landed in Calcutta to set up a trading post.
What ever happens to the principle of Collective Responsibility under the Parliamentary system? This nation must rise up and call for the Jagdeo and his Cabinet to resign now!
Mike Persaud

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