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Army uncovers plot to steal grenades
The Guyana Defence Force says that an investigation has revealed a deliberate plan to steal grenades from the army’s training base at Tacama in the Berbice River.
This comes in the wake of the disappearance of a quantity of grenades from the Colonel John Clarke Military School on Friday, following a training exercise.
However the army yesterday confirmed that all the grenades issued to the Tacama Training Base have been subsequently accounted for.
According to a release from Camp Ayanganna, following the disappearance, an investigation was immediately launched and the grenades, totaling 40, were found in two boxes aback of the accommodation housing the senior training staff, contrary to Force regulations which prescribe that grenades not in use are to be kept in the arms and ammunition stores.
The army said that a Warrant Officer is under close arrest while investigations continue to determine if there are other perpetrators and what Standard Operating Procedures were breached.
The Warrant Officer was transported to Base Camp Ayanganna by heavily armed military ranks yesterday.
Kaieteur News understands that no one is allowed to leave Base Camp Tacama, in the Berbice River as army officials continue their intensive investigations.
This newspaper was told that there is a junior leaders’ course which ends on December 5, currently underway at the base.
It was on Friday morning as the course continued that ranks were exposed to live fire training and grenade throwing.
This exercise, according to sources, was repeated again on Saturday morning, and it was then that the Warrant Officer alerted other officials that the items were missing.
On Saturday the Military Intelligence arm of the Guyana Defence Force questioned several ranks.
Kaieteur News was told that the seniors at the base immediately checked to ascertain how much was indeed missing.
On Saturday army officials recovered a quantity of AK-47 ammunition at the back of the Non Commissioning Office, at Base Tacama in the Berbice River.
Kaieteur News understands that the ammunition was found by one of the officers-in-charge.
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