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Sattaur/Jagdeo plot to destroy KN… It takes more than that to shock the PPP – Rohee
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee has admitted that with the way things are going in Guyana, one must brace oneself for any eventuality. He made this assertion as he hosted his Party’s weekly Press conference yesterday. The event was postponed from Monday because, according to PPP’s Executive Secretary, “we had some other important things.”
PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee
Rohee was asked whether his Party was shocked by the Kaieteur News’ revelations with regards to a plot to destroy the newspaper, or if it were a case where the PPP was privy to info on the plot before the publication.
“It takes more than that to shock the PPP; those things are not to shock us. With the way things go in Guyana, as my friend Adam Harris would know, don’t be surprised by the unexpected.
Asked whether that response meant the PPP knew what was being plotted against the media house, Rohee responded in the negative, and said, “I am dealing with the word shock and we were not shocked.”
Rohee said that when he saw the “disclosure or that front page story, my mind went back immediately to an episode in the Trinidad and Tobago between the opposition leader and some other politicians about the creditworthiness of an email; so I don’t know at this point and time how credible it is.”
The story to which Rohee referenced was one which indeed involved the Trinidad and Tobago government and the Opposition, in which verification was sought through Google Inc.
In 2013, Trinidad and Tobago Opposition Leader, Dr. Keith Rowley made allegations of corruption in Parliament. Rowley presented a series of e-mails, purportedly exchanged between high-ranking government officials, including Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
But the Government denied that those were authentic. The integrity Commission of Trinidad and Tobago eventually requested that Google provide clarity on the matter.
Google had agreed to preserve the information requested in 2013 by the Integrity Commission but had failed to deliver any documents up to earlier this year.
So the Integrity Commission applied to the United States District Court in the Northern District of California for an order directing Google to provide information. In this year the air was cleared and lawyers of the Trinidad and Tobago government produced a certified affidavit from Google Inc which they said invalidated the entire scandal.
Yesterday Kaieteur News asked Rohee to say whether his party would be pushing for a verification of the email. He said that the question should be directed to Cabinet Secretary and Presidential advisor, Roger Luncheon because “the issue is a government issue involving a government agency.
On Sunday, Kaieteur News reported on what it said was a plot by Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur and former President Bharrat Jagdeo to destroy the newspaper.
On that very day Sattaur sent out a response where he said that those reports were “baseless’ and “unjustified” so Kaieteur News decided to put in the public domain, the evidence of such plots which were dubbed “incontrovertible.”
The newspaper printed e-mails exchanged between Sattaur and Attorney General Anil Nandlall, with direct reference to Jagdeo.
In the E-mails, Sattaur told Nandlall that “we are in this thing together” and told him of plans that are “likely to break the camel’s back and the individual (Kaieteur News publisher, Glenn Lall) may go berserk.”
Since the e-mails were released, Sattaur didn’t send out any of his letters that usually come after an allegation is made against him, especially in the Kaieteur News.
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