Chairman of the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council Sharma Solomon was yesterday pressured to give a significant reason why he had not encouraged protestors to remove from the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge on July 18, before three men were killed and other persons wounded.
“In your 20 minutes speech to the crowd, did you inform them, having regard to the terms of permission, that they ought to get off the bridge?” Commissioner Cecil Kennard asked Solomon when he took to the stand yesterday morning before the Commission of Inquiry into the shootings continued.
“No, I did not,” he said before Kennard asked why. With a long pause, Kennard again prompted him, “Why not? Why not? You spoke for 20 minutes, why didn’t you tell them to