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Walter Rodney CoI…Defence Board received no correspondence on forged documents- Dr. Luncheon
Jun 19, 2014 News
Though he did not deny or acknowledge knowing about concerns over a “forged document” which was put before a witness in the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI), Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, did say however, that the Defence Board has not received any correspondence on the matter from the Commission.
Dr. Luncheon was at the time responding to a question during a press conference.
When asked whether the Defence Board had taken note of the apparent forged documents, Dr. Luncheon who also serves as Secretary to the Board of Defence said, “I am not certain how the Defence Board could indeed take note of the points that you raised — the forgeries and such like…
“We have been written to by the Commission to advise on the engagement with the military in pursuit in obtaining information. I have no correspondence from the Commission drawing the Board’s attention to forged documents from the military or about the military. No we don’t have any such (correspondence).”
The issue of forged documents came to the fore when Major General Norman McLean was giving evidence some weeks ago. An “account form” was put to the witness.
The document allegedly shows the movement of several high profile weapons from the Guyana Defence Force to the People’s National Congress and to the House of Israel religious group.
The signature attached to the document was that of former Army Col. Godwin McPherson. He died several years ago.
McLean, after seeing that document, immediately requested that a “handwriting” expert be summoned to determine its validity.
The document which is dated June 24, 1979 claims that the army handed over 19, G3 Rifles, 19, G3 Bayonett snipers, 1500 rounds of, 7.62 ammunition, ten Browning pistols and 500 rounds of 9mm ammunition.
However several sources close to the now dead Mc Pherson are refuting that he signed the document and have produced other documents purportedly signed by him on which the signature is different.
This has now caused some amount of concern about whether the documents have been willfully submitted to the Commission to publicly embarrass the officer and his family.
This has also brought into question the authenticity of other documents which have been provided to the Commission by the police.
On Thursday, Major General McLean said that he was familiar with the signature of the late army officer and denied that the signature attached to a document shown to him was that of McPherson’s.
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