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Govt. intimidation of KN should be investigated by Police – Ramjattan
““Kaieteur News staff should be on the alert…I don’t know what is happening to the country these days when threats could be forthcoming against people who are keeping democracy alive in Guyana. The Government hates Kaieteur News for all the scams and contracts scandals that the newspaper keeps uncovering through its investigations.”
AFC’s Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan
This notion was expressed by the Alliance For Change (AFC)’s Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan in reaction to this newspaper’s recent front page comment in the Tuesday Edition (August 23). The remark was made during the party’s weekly press briefing at its Campbellville headquarters, yesterday.
Ramjattan stated emphatically that it is a real sad state of affairs when someone reads the front page comment “Plans being hatched against Kaieteur News”, and understands its true depth.
Part of the front page comment reads; “We have learnt from very reliable sources of a plot to fabricate allegations against persons connected with this newspaper so as to lay the basis for them to be charged. This plot, we understand, has been hatched because of official concerns over the things that this newspaper has been exposing. We have been exposing the rampant corruption, the theft of national resources and the transfer of these resources to colleagues, associates and cohorts. Certain persons in the upper echelons of the society are adamant that we should not be allowed to continue to report these things in the run-up to general and regional elections. As such, there is a plan to silence Kaieteur News by targeting persons connected with this newspaper.”
The AFC’s Presidential Candidate said such a threat must be taken seriously as just before the last elections five of the newspaper’s employees were brutally slaughtered.
Ramjattan said that he believes what the proprietor of the paper is saying is true, along with the paper’s trustworthiness, and it is a damning state of affairs when officials try to intimidate the private media because of the articles being printed in relation to rampant corruption in the state.
Adding that such tactics are being used to gag the newspapers from further printing articles on corruption, Ramjattan said that it is a scary scenario and the police should investigate the matter and the relevant information should be provided.
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