Probe of Sawh, other murders now up to gov’t – Ramotar

Satyadeow Sawh

The onus is now on the David Granger administration to set up Commissions of Inquiry (CoI) into the deaths of former Minister of Agriculture Satyadeow ‘Sash’ Sawh and alleged extra-judicial killings they had lobbied for when in opposition, former President Donald Ramotar says.

According to Ramotar, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has no fear about their outcomes and the results would prove that the party never played a role in the killings. “We never promised a CoI into Sash Sawh or any of those…it was them who kept asking for it, now they are in government they can do it…we have nothing to hide or fear,” Ramotar told Stabroek News.

He said critics of him and his party, who have been chastising them about the motive in waiting until after two decades in office to set up the recently completed CoI into the death of historian Dr Walter Rodney while turning deaf ears to