Mere days before a final report is to be handed over, a petition for the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to sit for two more weeks so as to complete its work was on Thursday handed over to government.
A statement from the Justice for Walter Rodney Campaign said that the document with over 1,000 signatures was presented to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman and comes on the heels of similar action at Guyana’s Washington DC embassy and its Jamaica High Commission.
The statement explained that the handing over to Trotman was done by rights activist Karen de Souza on behalf of the Campaign, which is spearheaded by Guyanese in London.
Stabroek News made several attempts to contact Trotman for a reaction but was unsuccessful.
According to the Campaign statement, the petitioners are asking that President David Granger allow the CoI the two more weeks it requested to properly complete its work.