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Prove my links to narco trafficking- Greene challenges
Police Commissioner Henry Greene has issued a challenge for anyone to prove his involvement and association in terms of aiding drug dealers and by extension, the illegal drug trade.
Greene issued the challenge yesterday at the opening of this year’s Junior Officers’ Conference at the Police Officers’ Mess annex.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene
He was referring to reports in the media that painted an indictable picture of his alleged complicity with narcotics trafficking.
Ever since his elevation to the post of Police Commissioner in 2006, Greene has been beset by allegations of him benefitting from the narcotics trade for which the United States of America revoked his visas, actually barring him from entering that country.
“Judge me by my record from then to now, 2006 to 2011 and I say publicly, I continue to challenge anyone including policemen, to prove my involvement, my association or anything as it relates to drug dealers and the drug trade, I challenge anyone,” Greene said, bringing resounding applause from the officers attending the conference.
The most recent report of his alleged links stems from an explosive US Embassy cable released by whistleblower website, WikiLeaks.
The subject of the classified cable was “GOG (Government of Guyana) pick crooked police chief despite revoked visa”
“This issue reveals a real stubborn streak in Jagdeo –He is doggedly sticking with Greene, knowing that he is corrupt and incompetent – that doing so strains Guyana’s security situation and its foreign relations, and imperils GPF operational efficiency,” Michael Thomas, Charge d’Affaires of the Georgetown US Embassy, wrote in the cable.
Days before President Jagdeo appointed the Commissioner, Thomas met with President Jagdeo to convey Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)-provided language regarding Henry Greene’s alleged ties to narco-traffickers.
Three other major embassies were also heavily concerned and representatives of their missions accompanied the US Charge d’Affaires to a meeting with Jagdeo, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon and Foreign Minister, Dr Rudy Insanally.
Apart from the WikiLeaks releases, Greene was also in the spotlight following revelations of a verbal confrontation he had with Assistant Commissioner Steve Merai.
Merai had pointed accusing fingers at two officers who were close to the Commissioner, over their close links to alleged drug dealers.
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