Ramjattan dismisses PPP call for sacking over prisoner deaths

While the PPP yesterday said “heads must roll” for the fatal fire at the Camp Street prison, which resulted in the deaths of 17 inmates last Thursday, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan dismissed the call for his sacking as “ridiculous.”

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee, who had served as Home Affairs Minister in two successive PPP/C governments up to last year, told a news conference that while his party did not leave “a perfect system in place,” the David Granger administration must take the blame for tragedy