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Maxwell exaggerates the WPA dead

Jul 10, 2013 Letters


Dear Editor,
Many pressing things have kept me from making sure I read the Guyana online media.  I have just seen in a forwarded email a copy of a letter bearing the signature of   that keen correspondent, usually well informed, M. Maxwell. It says that four persons fell at the hands of the State before the internationally known Walter Rodney. Clearly the writer relies on a 1980 source.
I have no email address for M Maxwell or I would direct this advice there so that the statement could be reconsidered and made accurate.
Maxwell writes that four WPA activists were killed by the regime.
If no one has done so before, I wish to say that the WPA will hardly be laying the reported killing of Claude Bovell on November 18, 1979 at the feet of the regime of those days, simply because he did not exist, and was therefore neither a WPA member nor a victim of police killing.
The flesh and blood ones  were, since there was only one daily morning newspaper at the time reporting the breaking news , the mischief was the state-owned Chronicle, which for some reason had given that name, Claude Bovell, to  a WPA member Brother  Ohene Koama.
I had known Brother Ohene since his days in the Young Farmers’ Cooperative and took the chance to confirm with his sorrowing widow that even before his name change he was not named Bovell. There is of course always room for error and new information to which I am open.
May I add that some of us including attorney at law Moses Bhagwan, watching the interests of the family  attended the inquest diligently  and made public statements about its quality when it suddenly ended.  There is just a chance, not claimed, that Brother Ohene had some Bovell in his ancestry.
However, the name Claude Bovell did not arise in the aborted inquest and the number of WPA victims before June 13, 1980 and Rodney’s contrived death remains at two, Ohene Koama and Edward Dublin.
Eleven months before his own death, Dr. Rodney had referred to  the late Rev. Bernard Darke  as “ the first martyr of the Guyana revolution.”
Eusi Kwayana

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