President Donald Ramotar has confirmed Seelall Persaud as the Commissioner of Police but Opposition Leader David Granger says he was not meaningfully consulted on the appointment as is required by the law.
Granger, in an invited comment yesterday, said Ramotar did invite him to a consultation on the issue but he declined on the grounds that he wanted Persaud to address his role in the recent promotion of two cops who had tortured a teenage boy in 2009 at the Leonora Police Station.
“This is no longer an administrative issue, it is a legal issue,” Granger told Stabroek News,