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Publish the Rodney report — Rohee
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has called on the government to immediately and officially release the
PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee
Dr. Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) report. As they continue to hold on to it, the public is being denied the opportunity to judge for itself.
According to PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee, the COI was paid for by taxpayers’ dollars, thus ultimately belonged to them. Rohee made it clear that snippets of the leaked report appearing in the media was not good enough.
He also responded to comments by President David Granger. Granger was quoted in the media as saying that the report and its findings are “flawed”, based on “hearsay evidence” and that it would be challenged.
“The severe criticism of the Granger administration has also come about due to President Granger’s un-statesman like rejection of the Report’s conclusions and recommendations.”
Noting that the mounting criticism of the APNU+AFC coalition administration was justified, Rohee called for the immediate release of the Report and for it to be laid in the National Assembly unconditionally.
“There are two attempts at covering-up,” Rohee said. “Firstly, (there is) the attempt to cover-up who is responsible for the death of Dr. Walter Rodney and second, the attempt at covering up the findings of the Report detailing the circumstances of Dr. Rodney’s assassination.”
“The PPP urges the Granger-led Government to put an end to this nonsensical behaviour,” he said. “President Granger should heed the wise words of Benjamin Franklin who wrote that it should not be supposed that honour and dignity are better served; “by persisting in a wrong measure once entered into than by rectifying an error as soon as it is discovered.”
The findings of the COI, which were leaked, had essentially said that the People’s National Congress (PNC) administration which was led by the late Forbes Burnham was responsible for the death of the Guyanese scholar.
Executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Dr. David Hinds, has already expressed disappointment at the “partisan” stance recently taken by President David Granger on some of the leaked findings of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) Report.
“I disagree with the President’s interpretation of the report, but that is not the source of my disappointment,” Hinds had said. “Had the president told the reporters that he was speaking as leader of the PNC, I would not have been disappointed.”
“The PNC has a right to be aggrieved by the findings of the Commission; after all the PNC government of that time and its leader is indicted by the report.”
He had added that the President and Leader of a coalition party –of which the WPA is part of—blundered by making such comments as it comes across as being partisan.
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