Tacuma Ogunseye is outraged at the attack on Kaieteur News

Jun 08, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

The report that a hand grenade was thrown at the parked vehicle of Kaieteur News owner and publisher, Mr. Glenn Lall, is unsettling and a reminder that the Guyanese society since the rise of the criminal state under the PPPC’s 23 years of rule, is vulnerable to criminal conduct. Given the interlocking relationship between economics, politics and crime, which is the legacy the PPPC bequeathed to Guyana, this becomes even more difficult to decipher.
Whatever is the motive behind this attack on Mr. Lall and the Kaieteur News, the nation must register its collective abhorrence and condemnation of this criminal act, and express our solidarity with Kaieteur News, which has evolved as a national institution.
In the past, Kaieteur News has been subjected to several heinous criminal attacks that resulted in its employees being shot and killed at its printery in Eccles some years ago and an arson attack directed at its Saffon Street operations. When these attacks took place the general consensus of the public was that these incidents were organized, targeted attacks on the newspaper for its aggressive exposure of wrong doings in the society. A point to note is that all of these previous attacks took place under the PPPC government.
This most recent assault on the paper and its owner occurred under the APNU+AFC administration. This fact alone makes it imperative for the regime to request that the Guyana Police Force do everything in its power to solve this crime and bring its perpetrators to justice.
Grenades have long been tools in the arsenal of the organized criminal/political underworld in Guyana. For some reason these grenades have failed to explode when used. The frequency which this has happened creates the impression that they came from the same batch and the same supplier. All this pre dates the present government. It boggles the mind that the PPPC when in government never seemed eager to get to the bottom of this new and potentially dangerous development. The PPPC in its attitude to the use of grenades by the criminal elements in society radiated confidence that they were all dummies.
The APNU+AFC government has to treat this matter as a national security emergency. Since this recent attack could very well be a test run for something more dramatic, the intention being to make the administration appear incapable of dealing with security of the country.
Tacuma Ogunseye

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