Working People’s Alliance (WPA) member Dr Omawale Omawale yesterday said he was unaware of the party seeking arms and ammunition to contend with the “harassment and dictatorship” of the then PNC-led government, while emphasising that party leader Dr Walter Rodney would not have encouraged personal violence.
Omawale made the statement yesterday when he took the stand for the first time before the members of the Commission of Inquiry into Rodney’s death. Omawale was not only a WPA member but a schoolmate of Rodney’s at Queen’s College.
According to Omawale, Rodney and other WPA members had been the subjects of extreme state-sanctioned harassment, including assassination attempts and the
