Dear Editor,
The recent decision by a city magistrate in the Carvil Duncan case gives me strong reason to have faith in the justice system. The magistrate in question is a no-nonsense dispenser of justice who is concerned with the law and the law only, political and other extraneous distractions are furthest from his court. I commend Magistrate Daly.
In Guyana today where backwardness, mediocrity and the bullying tactics of an overbearing political culture, it would take grit, determination and guts to stand up and be counted. So, once again I commend the magistrate.
In the same vein I castigate persons of the ilk of Tacuma Ogunseye who immediately reacted with his usual negative comments,. In that letter he makes a direct appeal to the present administration to strong arm the justice system to get the desired result of a conviction, even if it means subverting the rule of law.
Pay strict attention to his assertions “that decision was nothing but an act of legal/judicial indiscretion which opens the authorities to the charge it was designed to support a politically well-connected operative.”
He further asserts “for justice to prevail…there is urgent need for some form of oversight at the judicial level to ensure that these situations do not occur.” What “urgent need” for some form of oversight of the judicial level is he talking about? That was a rhetorical question because we are all well aware as to what Ogungseye wants, and that is, a return of the days when the judiciary was just a rubber-stamp of the political whims and fancies of a dictator.
He wants us to return to those days of slavery under Burnham’s PNC. He wants us to go full circle back into those dark days. Should there be a realisation of what Ogunseye is asking, then heaven help us all here in Guyana. Things take precedence in our country.
What I find most appalling is the fact that here we have a man who from the political history of Guyana suffered immensely under the very same regime he is soliciting favours. Therefore, it defies intelligence that Ogunseye should be fostering such illegalities.
We the right thinking people of this country, would like to keep society stable and progressive, and in this regard, we sincerely ask that politics stay well clear of the judiciary.
I close by saying let us keep politics and other forms of illegal manipulations of the law out of the judiciary. Let the two entities be separate.
Let freedom reign!
Sincerely,
Neil Adams
