As calls continued for an extension of the work of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of Dr Walter Rodney, lawyers for the politician’s family and party yesterday argued that the Forbes Burnham-led PNC government and agents of the state were culpable.
However, attorney Selwyn Pieters, the newly-appointed counsel for the People’s National Congress (PNC), maintained that the party did not kill Dr Rodney nor did the state nor did late former president Burnham.
At the CoI’s final public hearing yesterday, attorneys Andrew Pilgrim and Christopher Ram, who represent the interest of the immediate family of Dr Rodney and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), respectively, advanced that it was the Burnham-led PNC government that was responsible for the politician’s June 13, 1980 death.
Rodney died after what was believed to be a walkie-talkie that was given to him exploded.
Ram, in his arguments, said that suspected assassin Gregory Smith played the part
