Although the forensic audits that recommended criminal investigations of public officers for alleged crimes committed under the former government are with the police, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan says investigations are at a standstill because scared witnesses are not giving statements.
For the time being, those matters have been placed on the backburner and Ramjattan said that it is hoped that the passage of witness protection legislation may see a change in this trend.
According to him, the police have indicated that “the witnesses don’t want to write their statements up and so on [and] that is the problem because they are scared, scared like hell. They feel that these people, if they are charged based on their statement, they are gonna get trouble…and
