-will skip Parliament
The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday said that revelations in a US court over the killing of Ronald Waddell point to a clear crisis of governance and it called on the police commissioner to discharge his obligations in investigating that murder and that of boxing coach Donald Allison.
In a statement referring to testimony from witness for the US, Selwyn Vaughn, a self-confessed former member of the phantom squad, the AFC said that the testimony under oath of a confessed conspirator involved in the murder of at least two Guyanese citizens had left the nation stunned.
‘At the very minimum the Minister identified must immediately step aside to facilitate a full blown independent international commission of inquiry”, the statement added without naming the minister. Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has been named by Vaughn as the person who phantom squad leader Roger Khan had called after the shooting attack on Waddell. Ramsammy has vehemently denied this. (See story on page 19)
The AFC said the disclosures in the US court made by the self confessed murderer have revealed more than adequate primary facie evidence upon which criminal charges can be instituted against persons in Guyana.
The party said it does not see it as appropriate in the light of the testimony to participate in any debate at the present time in Parliament for the purpose of discussing the Govern-ment’s Low Carbon Development Strategy or any other business.
“The AFC is of the view that …there is a clear and present crisis of governance in Guyana which requires urgent attention by all stakeholders. How many more Guyanese must die before this madness ends?”
