The Family Court has been identified as the headquarters for the Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of WPA leader and historian Dr Walter Rodney in 1980 and immunity from prosecution is on the cards.
GINA said yesterday that Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon who made the announcement at a post -Cabinet media briefing said funds will be appropriated for the Commission to discharge specific activities.
“Such activities include the collection of data from the variety of sources that have historically been involved in review and judicial reviews in some cases, parliamentary review in others, of Dr. Rodney’s assassination,” Dr Luncheon said, according to GINA.
Details of the Terms of Reference to guide the commission and the appointment of the Commissioners will also be hammered out. According to GINA, Dr Luncheon said it was agreed that the commission and its work will be supported by initiatives that were not used before such as immunity from prosecution and amnesties. The GINA statement did not say if this would also include witness protection.
