Nandlall condemns Ogunseye’s call to be `battle ready’

A screenshot of live recording that was posted on social media with WPA member Tacuma Ogunseye speaking at the meeting at Buxton on Thursday night

Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall SC has vehemently condemned statements made by Tacuma Ogunseye, executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), including for persons to be “battle ready”

Ogunseye, while at a WPA meeting on Thursday night in the village of Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) made several claims about the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) using the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force in the past to “execute” Africans and encouraged his ethnic group, especially those who are members of the Joint Services, to be “battle ready” for a “fight.”

During the meeting which was recorded and shared on the Facebook profile of KAMS TV, the party member could be heard referring to his version of events in Buxton, 2002, “…In 2002, 2005, when Buxton got interrupted into an unfortunate situation which arose because of the PPP policy of executing Africans using the police force and then the phantom force and Buxton find itself in the cross road.”