Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan is more than likely to take the stand before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to give evidence, following a request by
Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan
Attorney Christopher Ram to have him invited to do so.
Ram, who represents the interest of businessman Imran Khan, made the request before CoI Commissioner Paul Slowe on Wednesday. He told the Commission that given Ramjattan is responsible for the Guyana Police Force (GPF), him giving testimony might be pertinent to the work of the Commission.
Slowe promised to take that course of action and will extend the invitation to Minister Ramjattan to make an appearance before the CoI sometime during next week.
On March 29, Andrif Gillard reported that his neighbour Nizam Khan offered him $7 million to kill President David Granger. In June, President Granger decided to launch a CoI into the alleged plot to assassinate him and named Slowe as Chairman of the Commission.
The CoI seeks to inquire into persons, places, time and circumstances and events by and through which allegations and reports came to be made of an intention to assassinate the President; investigate the full range of the actions and responses of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to the reports and the extent to which such actions were conducted or executed with due diligence; determine whether any person, and in particular, officers of the GPF had information before and after reports were made of a plan to assassinate the President and whether any such officers communicated that information to a superior authority.
Commissioners will also record and report on what official action was taken on the basis of the information received and whether there was due diligence by the officers of the GPF in the investigation of the plan to assassinate the President and determine whether there was failure, neglect or omission to thoroughly and properly investigate the plan to assassinate the President and determine whether such failure or omission was intentional.
The Commissioners will seek to also determine the blameworthiness for the failure or neglect of officers or persons involved in the investigation and recommend action to be taken against persons found to be blameworthy.
They will also recommend steps that can be taken to prevent the recurrence of such incident and identify systemic issues, if any, in the GPF’s competence to investigate matters of this nature. The report is due to be submitted to President Granger on August 18.
