Education Minister Priya Manickchand says that ongoing investigations have yet to find evidence to implicate ministry welfare officers in issuing threats to the Anna Catherina teen who hanged himself.
Safraz Sattaur, 16, committed suicide in January after he was allegedly threatened by ministry welfare officers after the suicide of his 15-year-old girlfriend, who hanged herself three weeks prior at her Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home.
Villagers had said that Sattaur received a visit from the welfare officers the day he hanged himself and he claimed that they had threatened him and told him that he would have to go to court due to his girlfriend’s death.
Speaking to Stabroek News last Thursday, Manickchand noted that investigations were ongoing, but said that nothing found so far suggests that any of the ministry’s welfare officers did what was alleged by the villagers.
