Latest update December 17th, 2024 3:32 AM
The evidence supports a hatchet job in progress
Dear Editor
For the umpteenth time the decisions and the ranting of Attorney General Basil Williams comes into focus. This time it is his intention to appeal the decision of Judge Fidela Corbin- Lincoln to quash a decision by former commissioner of police, David Ramnarine to send former SWAT boss Motie Dookie on “Special Leave in the Public Interest”.
It is public knowledge that Ramnarine was instructed by citizenship minister Winston Felix to send Dookie on leave. It is clear as day, the political directorate has eroded the independence of the post of the police commissioner.
In this scenario, we are rapidly becoming a full blown police state. It takes a depraved mind to imagine that a judge would have ruled against article 212(1) of the constitution- which clearly states that the sole and exclusive jurisdiction and authority to exercise disciplinary control in respect of a police officer of Dookie’s rank is the PSC.
Article 212 taken into consideration, should have inspired Williams to be in defence of the Constitution and Dookie, rather than allowing the matter to go to Court with Williams listed as a respondent. It’s a pity! While our constitution lists the laws, it has no scripted penalty attached for those in power who breached them.
That would have put Williams on the “long side of the stick” since it is human to err. It is expedient to affix severe penalties behind every law or article in the constitution that is intended to protect the rights and interest of the citizenry. It is the only method by which we can achieve separation of Government from state.
Williams opined that his premise for the Dookie case appeal will be based on – in the absence of the Police Service Commission – that the common law principle of necessity comes into force.
This is brash arrogance to suggest that the law of necessity should take precedence over written rules of the constitution; that would be the recipe for chaos.
Is Dookie some kind of threat to the Nation? I think not. Williams found it politically correct, not to mention that it was President Granger who was responsible for the absence of a PSC by capitation of the former PSC– another constitutional violation, which in my opinion should be listed with impeachment as penalty if it pertains to the president holding a bible and repeating, “I (whomsoever) herby duly swear to uphold and protect the constitution”, is not working for us.
All this little action and few words do is to bring to focus, the credibility or lack thereof, of the people that govern us. When they speak of integrity, honesty and impartiality, you know they are trying to create a mirage. Our constitution is so twisted-even impeachment will not work because our parliament is based on a cult of numbers and not people’s representation.
Yes! Dookie seems complicit in the smuggling of whiskey. But like everyone else he deserves a fair trial to establish his innocence or guilt. While there are other high ranking officers who are under sanctions for different misconduct, they are not treated with the crassness as Dookie.
Dookie is a brilliant officer with a lot to offer to the GPF. Efforts to sideline him from serving, coupled with the dispensing of David Ramnarine as Commissioner of Police (ag) is indicative of an hatchet job on the hierarchy of the GPF.
Rudolph Singh
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