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COI revelations…Hamilton must resign from Parliament immediately – Harmon
By Gary Eleazar
In light of the confessions made by the former member of the House of Israel now Member of Parliament for the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Joseph Hamilton must now resign and give account for the weapons he had in his possession.
Joseph Hamilton during his testimony at the COI.
This is the opinion of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s Joseph Harmon, who in an interview with this publication Friday said that given the revelations made by Hamilton, the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force should launch investigations.
Harmon said that he is hopeful that many of the persons, whose names are being implicated in the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the killing of Dr Walter Rodney, must be called up to clear their names.
“At present there is a lot of character assassination taking place by persons who are of dubious characters themselves.”
Harmon said that Hamilton has confessed to the nation that he is “free at last” and added that “his tenure in the National Assembly must now be called into question because he has admitted to doing several things which were unlawful.”
According to Harmon, the PPP/C MP must now do the right thing and resign from the National Assembly forthwith.
“Now that he has freed his mind of all of these things, he should free the nation of his double standards.”
Harmon noted that Hamilton in his testimony also did not speak to the alleged issuance of G3 rifles to the House of Israel, “he just spoke of some pistols.”
According to Harmon, “the question I wanted to find out from him is what he did with the pistol that he had in his possession.”
“I heard him say in his evidence that he received a pistol and they used to rotate it among people.”
Harmon said that he is interested to know – and that it should also be in the interest of the Police and the Army now “to find out from Hamilton where the weapon is which he had last; which he said he had in his possession. What did he do with it?” Harmon queried. “Since Hamilton knew it was an army weapon he had in his possession, what did he do with it?”
“Hamilton should now answer some real questions now…this has nothing to do with immunity from the Commission itself, this is now evidence which has emerged from the mouth of Mr Hamilton that he had these illegal weapons.”
Harmon said that the Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, should call upon to the police to ask Hamilton some “serious questions”.
The APNU Executive Member recalled that Hamilton was recently in Parliament requesting Winston Felix to supply information regarding a police radio which he allegedly had in his possession.
“Send the police to Hamilton now and ask him where is this gun that he said he had.”
Hamilton during his testimony at the COI had alleged that Robert Corbin, the former leader of the Peoples National Congress, had supplied guns to the notorious House of Israel.
He testified too that the grouping would “disrupt” meetings of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on behalf of the PNC government.
“We would beat people with objects such as batons, sticks etc,” Hamilton told the Commission.
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