Leonard Arokium the owner of the Lindo Creek mining camp where eight miners including his son and brother were killed about a month ago, believes that his life is in imminent danger in the wake of checks on his movements by a group of men unknown to him.
A letter was dispatched yesterday to Commissioner of Police Henry Greene, signed by a representative on behalf of Arokium’s attorney Nigel Hughes who is currently overseas, advising him of Arokium’s fears. Hughes said he had been instructed that a group of six men have been making various inquiries in his client’s immediate neighbourhood about the location of his home, his movements and the persons who reside with him.
The letter further said that Arokium had been advised to make a report to the police station “But we fear that this is a real and present danger which requires your most urgent personal intervention.” Further, it said that the Arokium family has already suffered untold pain at their most recent loss and to compound their tragedy with the possibility of the loss of another family would be heinous.
Hughes said too that he hoped that in the light of Arokium’s suspicions “about the identity of the perpetrators of the Lindo Creek Massacre” that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) would spare no effort in protecting his life. “Our client remains available to speak with you personally about this plight,” the letter said, adding that Arokium fears that should information be shared with other members of the GPF it “may unwittingly find its way into the hands of those who are the subject of the information.”
Arokium told Stabroek News that he believes that the threats to him are a result of his outspokenness about the slaying of his men. From the beginning Arokium had made it clear that he felt it was the lawmen who had slaughtered and then burnt the remains of his men. He said his claims were based on his knowledge of the geography of the area and that it would have been impossible for wanted man Rondell Rawlins and his gang to be escaping the net set by lawmen and turn back to kill his men. He said too that the lawmen’s claim that the job had the mark of Rawlins’s gang was baseless.
The bodies of the eight men were burnt along with their belongings. This would have caused a fire that would have been seen from overhead. Throughout the search for the gang in the Upper Berbice River area, the army’s Bell 206 helicopter was said to be up and running; aiding the lawmen’s mission. However, to date neither the police nor army has reported seeing any flames from overhead.
Experts from Trinidad and Jamaica are assisting the local authorities is analyzing the crime scene and confirming that the remains found at the camp site are indeed those of the men who are believed dead. Meanwhile, Arokium says he has not gotten any word from the lawmen as regards their stated intention to conduct DNA tests. He had told this newspaper that the police had asked him to advise the relatives of the men believed dead of their intention.
This newspaper was not able to determine if Greene had received the letter.
Looks like the men responsible for your workers death lookin for you , Well that means The fine man gang is in the city moving freely without being detected very interesting.
Are they from the “PHANTOM” squad?
i smell a rat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
redina you smella rat i smell george bacchus
Run fuh yuh life Akorim..this is Guyana No Law Land…Greeene said they cornered fine man so it can’t be him……
This just shows the world how corrupt Guyana has become. I recalled that this news papers reporting officials as saying that this was the work of fineman,well Mr. fineman you are the best when I grow up I want to have powers just like you. To my fellow Guyanes I think it is time that you follow the Bajans,the yardies,the St. Lucians and Grenadians VOTE this Government out !! They are both a national and International embarrassment to Guyanese everywhere, I disliked Forbes Burnham that was my reason for migrating but I tell you what this Goverment is the cream of the crop the worst Guyana has ever had.
well sagga Grand K-Man you are not living in Guyana and you know how corrupt the country has become. The jadgeo government is playing a blame game.to be honest anything bad that happen in this country someone else except them is to be blamed. it is time that the Jagdeo goverment take a stand and show the world that Guyana can rise to the top and where we are at right now is because of the PPP/C regime. It is time that their slogan ” ONE GOOD TURN DESERVE ANOTHER” take effect because the guyanese people are suffering. We have to cope with the cost of living. just imagine 1 pint of rice is $120.00 guyana dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are in a bad state.
For someone who is afraid for his life, he was doing alot of talking especially soon after the incident. Not that he shouldn’t.
The fear expressed by Arokium is reminiscent of those made by the infamous Bacchus who was murdered as a result of his exposure of the sordid affairs of the Death Squad debacle. In Bacchus’ case, the underworld which is inclusive of some members of the authority of which he was very much a part, may have deemed him a ‘snitch’, so he was left out into the cold to be ‘done in’ for fear of more exposure; dead men tell no tales.
Arokium is not ‘snitching’ but merely doing what he must, and that is keeping hope alive that this horror, like many of its kind in Guyana’s recent violent history, would not be swept under the carpet to be forgotten and remain unsolved.
Let’s hope that, unlike Bacchus, this time around the authorities will do everything to protect him. On second thought, who will protect him since the very people who should are suspects? Talk about a rock and a hard place!
well, deflect you hit the hammer on the right nail. once you are friends with the people of the underworld and which of course you will know all of their secrets and you get fed up with them and you want to get out they will do all things in their power so that you will not let their secrets out. once their secret is out you are labelled as an “informer” and the saying goes “informer must dead”. So i am happy that Aroukium express his fear and hopefully justice will be on his side and be for him and i am praying that the lord keep him safe minus police because you cannot put a cat to watch milk.
I saw this coming – i used the spyware!
It is good to let the public know about your suspicions Mr. Arokium.
By the way – why did the police say they will not charge the “suspect” or “witness” yet?
Waiting to see what are the findings of the forensics and others before they proceed with the scapegoat????? hmmmmmmmmm
The police spared no effort in protecting George Bacchus life…Ooops! (Am I so wrong!) They may offer the same kind of protection to Arokium. HEAVEN HELP US…ALL!