Former President Donald Ramotar has roasted the APNU+AFC government over the manner in which it treated the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of historian Dr Walter Rodney and the three Caribbean commissioners.
Ramotar who had appointed the CoI in 2015 and lost office before it concluded its deliberations said it was another shameful page in the conduct of the nation’s affairs by this government.
“I am extremely disturbed and disappointed at the way the APNU+AFC regime has treated the Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances that led to the assassination of Walter Rodney”, Ramotar said in a statement yesterday. The statement comes amid major controversy last week around the handing over of the report by Chairman of the Commission, Sir Richard Cheltenham and Commissioners Seenath Jairam and Jacqueline Samuels. They had been unable to meet a deadline for the handing over of the