Almost six years after being sentenced in the United States for drug trafficking, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan is a talking point in the current elections campaign, which has seen former president and PPP/C candidate Bharrat Jagdeo declaring that he never knew the convict and that his proclaimed “crime fighting” were not state-sanctioned.
The PPP/C government under Jagdeo has long been believed to have allowed Khan a free rein to operate in the name of crime fighting after the country experienced an unprecedented crime spree that was triggered by the February 23rd, 2002 Camp Street prison break.
Khan, before he was nabbed in neighbouring Suriname and then handed over to US authorities, had stated in a
