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Is Hughes forgiven?

Sep 15, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Since the revelation that Vernon Griffith, foreman of the jury that acquitted the two accused in the Lusignan massacre trial was a client of Mr. Nigel Hughes, Chairman of the AFC for six continuous years, and that both Hughes and Mr.  Griffith failed to disclose this fact to the trial judge, the AFC have failed to make any clear and unambiguous public statement on  this fact. It has deliberately chosen to remain silent hoping that it will go away.  This deliberate failure on the part of the AFC to make an unambiguous public statement suggests either of both of two things. One, the AFC has brushed aside the issue as one of little or no significance or cares nothing about the pub outcry.  This has indeed left many lingering, but quite legitimate questions on the lips of every decent and law abiding Guyanese. It seems to have even left the Guyana bar association dumbstruck because it has failed to issue a statement on this act.
Among the questions being ask is one that is correctly directed at the AFC. ‘Has the AFC forgiven Mr. Hughes?’ If it did as it would appear, then on whose behalf or authority it did so? I am sure that those who believed the AFC’s deception and voted for it are not the ones since the majority of them have already seen its true colors. So, did the AFC seek the opinion of those who they are claiming to represent, the public or at least their voters?  What about the survivors and relatives of the victims? Did the AFC give any thought to them?  It is inconceivable that the leadership of the AFC, a party that promises a new political culture in Guyana, has failed to censure one of its top leaders.
Now that the AFC has publicized its code of conduct, one is left to wonder even more about what are the principles that govern this party. The leaders of the AFC promise to be selfless in their efforts to make Guyana a better place, but it turned out they are selfish and destroying everybody’s future.
Faruk
Mohamed

 

 

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