Rodney Commission could never hurt the relationship between PNC and WPA - Granger

Rodney Commission could never hurt the relationship between PNC and WPA – Granger

Jul 12, 2014 News

By Latoya Giles
Opposition Leader, Retired Brigadier David Granger said that he does not believe that the ongoing Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry could or will ever hurt the relationship between the People’s National Congress and the Working People’s Alliance.
Granger, in a recent interview with this newspaper said that the PPP administration is well aware that both political parties have supported an international inquiry and it hasn’t impaired their relationship.
According to Granger, both parties want the truth to be told. However, he said that they have expressed their disappointment with the way the Commission has been going.
“More than four months have elapsed and we have not gotten any closer to say how Dr. Rodney died” Granger told Kaieteur News.
The Commission according to Granger, has been reduced to something more of a “soap opera” where people can tune in and look at live streaming which is being done by the National Communications Network (NCN). Granger further said that the truth has been elusive and once it’s told he does not believe that the relationship between the PNC and WPA would be damaged.
“These two parties are for a greater objective, which is national unity and there is nothing that will emerge from that Commission that would stop that objective” Granger posited.
The Rodney Commission is costing Government $112M and was set up in February 2014 to examine circumstances surrounding the death of the former leader of the WPA.
Dr. Rodney was killed on June 13, 1980, when a bomb exploded in a car in which he was an occupant. He was 38 years old at the time.
His brother, Donald Rodney, who suffered injuries during the explosion, alleged that a former GDF electronics expert, Sergeant Gregory Smith, had given the politician a “walkie talkie” which exploded.
It was alleged that Smith planted the bomb in the device which blew up on Rodney’s pelvic region while he was on John Street, Werk-en-Rust, between Hadfield and Bent Streets, less than 100 metres from the Camp Street Prison.
Smith died of cancer 11 years -ago in French Guiana where he had gone to live, after he had fled Guyana.
The Terms of Reference which commissioners are using as a guideline includes “examining the facts and circumstances immediately prior at the time of and subsequent to the death of Dr. Rodney in order to determine as far as possible, who or what was responsible for the explosion resulting in the death of Rodney”.
The commissioners are tasked with inquiring into the cause of the explosion in which Dr. Walter Rodney died; whether it was an act of terrorism and if so, who were the perpetrators.
Commissioners would also have to specifically examine the role, if any, which the late Gregory Smith, a Sergeant of the Guyana Defence Force, played in the death of Rodney and if so, inquire into who may have counseled, procured, aided and or abetted him to do so, including facilitating his departure from Guyana after Rodney’s death.

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