WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON?

Jan 16, 2016 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

APNU+AFC is not keeping its promises. Not the ones it made before the elections, but rather, the ones it made after the elections. The coalition promised greater transparency. Instead the public is being subjected to a regular dose of ‘duck and the drake’. Sometimes you see, sometimes you don’t.
It has not released the names of the prisoners who were released under Presidential pardons. All over the world this is done. When Donald Ramotar, the former PPP President, released a prisoner just before he demitted office, the pro-PNC media dug it up and got the story out in the open. They are not interested in doing the same when their government is in power.
And who can blame them for being one-sided? The pro-PPP media is in a state of comatose, with very few investigative skills and merely wanting to report on press releases and press conferences from Freedom House.
The coalition promised that things would be different. Well, things are different, but not in the way people expected. There is a fear of surveillance of persons associated with the PPP. The Deputy Head of NICIL claims that she is being shadowed. There is a report coming from a senior leader of the United Republican Party indicating that surveillance and phone interceptions may be taking place.
There are suspicions that the movement of other persons connected with the PPP is being monitored. Persons in West Demerara suspect that intelligence gathering is being undertaken in that area. What is the purpose? What is the threat?
The coalition is behaving like the PNC of old, when there were spies all around. After the 1985 elections, the police had a motor cycle that was assigned to the traffic department at Brickdam, following the every movement of Cheddi Jagan. Hoyte even went as far as relieving Jagan’s security of his weapon, leaving the Leader of the Opposition unprotected.
When persons left political meetings, the Death Squad would be following them. PNC operatives would inflict beatings of opposition supporters. At one time, a vehicle dispatched from the D’Urban Street party office carried individuals who inflicted a ‘licking’ on a leader of an opposition party. Those were the days when Guyana operated like a police state.
Why have those old fears been resurrected? Why are persons’ homes being staked out? Why are the vehicles of persons being searched? This is harassment.
The government had seven long months to be ensuring the security of documents from NICIL. They were not searching homes and cars then? So why are they doing so now? What are they searching for? Was there any complaint in the forensic audit that documentation was withheld? Why launch searches now? Is this the pretext that is being used to harass people? This is worse than the PPP.
The government has refused to undertake an investigation into the incident involving the late Guyana Defence Force Sergeant Pyle. He may have been on a private mission, and not on government’s business, as is claimed. His actions may have had nothing to do with the Special Organised Crime Unit.
The public needs to know whether this was a stakeout or an attempted kidnapping. The public needs to know whether Sergeant Pyle was an intelligence operative or after a bounty.
It is hard to understand how anyone could have been staking out the home of Winston Brassington and mixed that up with his next door neighbour. The two houses are strikingly different. Winston Brassington’s house is made of wood and does not have a verandah. Any person mistaking Mr. Ramson’s house for Brassington’s house was not properly briefed. Or was not really interested in Brassington’s home
It is hard to understand how someone takes his wife on a stakeout. It is perplexing that Sergeant Pyle tried to make an arrest. The soldiers of the Guyana Defence Force do not have powers of arrest. So why did a chase ensue? And how if he managed to get the car to stop would he have effected an arrest, and for what purposes? Who owns the car that got into the accident? Was it Sergeant Pyle’s or was it owned by an arm of the State? How come the media is not interested in this fact which may hold clues as to whether the stakeout was an official operation?
There are too many unanswered questions. Foreign agencies and countries should now refuse to assist the security and law enforcement agencies until such time as there is a full disclosure as to just what is taking place in Guyana at this time.

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