President Donald Ramotar yesterday challenged the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and leader David Granger to aid in the recovery of military weapons missing since its time in government, while saying there was clear evidence the arms had ended up in the hands of criminals.
“These weapons were given to the PNC and they have found themselves into the criminal community. They have a responsibility of getting back those weapons,” Ramotar said, while addressing the recent revelations that more than 150 weapons issued by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to external bodies in the 1970s remain missing.
Lieutenant Colonel Sydney James, head of the army’s G2 branch, this week revealed at the Commission of Inquiry into Walter Rodney’s death that a 2008 internal investigation found that that 155 weapons out of 237 issued to various external bodies, including the former National Development Ministry as well as security forces, had never been returned. Two of the missing weapons were found in Mahaicony in 2008 in the possession of criminals.
“….When those weapons were given to the PNC, the present leader of the PNC was the commander of the army
