Police are investigation a bizarre attack on Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon around 7 pm, which has since been strongly condemned by the Guyana Press Association.
Kissoon told reporters last evening that he had just returned to his car after an unplanned stop at Nigel’s Supermarket, when a “very squatty guy” threw a bowl of pungent human faeces directly into his face.
Kissoon, who was already in his vehicle, related that he chased the man from Cummings Street to the vicinity of the Merriman Mall where he got into a waiting white car.
He added that his attacker was dark, squatty and wearing a cap.
“He just threw it in my face and ran and I drove after him and I was trying to knock him with my car but he went into the car and then the car came at me and I had to swerve,” Kissoon told the media and the police who were there to take statements.
According to Kissoon, the car that the man escaped in was white and he could only make out the letters PKK as the lights that illuminate the licence plate were off.
When asked what could have led to such an attack, Kissoon said, “I think it has to do with today’s [yesterday’s] article with what I discovered about Ms Nicola Ming and the people she entertained… I think people want me to stop that line of information.”
However, Kissoon stated that he will not let last night’s incident to stop him from pursuing his investigations. “I can’t let these guys shut me up,” he said.
Kissoon showered and received a change of clothes from a resident nearby. He was then provided with a police escort to his destination.
Meanwhile, the GPA called the attack, crude and callous. “The GPA sees this as just not an attack on Mr Kissoon but also an attack on the press in Guyana both ‘private and state’ and the persons behind this should ‘be dealt with’,” the statement added.
The statement warned that the slippage into dangerous and vile behaviour must not continue and expressed hope that the police force releases Kissoon’s statement in full, in keeping with its new and welcomed decision to release the actual written statements of persons involved in investigations.
