PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee is set to appear before the Commis-sion of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of historian and political leader Dr Walter Rodney and he says all those with knowledge should come forward.
Speaking with reporters after the PPP’s weekly press conference on Monday, Rohee singled out Opposition Leader David Granger and argued that he has an obligation to come forward voluntarily before the CoI.
Rohee, who said that he was currently preparing and sorting evidence that would need to be presented, also charged that instead of focusing on the testimony of former House of Israel Member Joseph Hamilton, who is currently a PPP/C Member of Parliament, the media should be asking why others have refused to testify.
Granger and the PNCR have taken a position of non-cooperation with the CoI due to objections to its Terms of Reference (ToR) and specifically the mandate to examine possible state surveillance of the political opposition for the period January 1, 1978 to December 31, 1980. Granger was a commander of the Guyana Defence Force at the time.
“Why focus on a man that has come clean… and not focus on those who still have skeletons,” Rohee said in reference to Hamilton’s controversial testimony,
