APNU+AFC today called for the immediate release from police custody of former lands and surveys commissioner Trevor Benn.
Benn was taken into custody by the police yesterday in relation to a land deal and remains in police custody.
APNU+AFC said “There is a clear trend that has developed whereby charges are trumped up against professional Afro-Guyanese, knowing fully well that there is no case against them. The PPP however seems to derive a twisted sense of pleasure from incarcerating innocent people for seventy-two hours, occasioning the most egregious abuses of our legal processes and making a mockery of entire legal system.
“It is an established fact that Mr. Benn did not personally benefit from the sale of any lands. All monies paid for lands were paid into the State’s coffers. These monies are now being unconscionably squandered by the PPP regime as they engage in reckless and irresponsible spending. In an effort to divert attention from their squandermania and to continue their campaign of persecuting Afro-Guyanese public servants they have now arrested Mr. Benn on spurious and completely trumped up charges”, the former governing coalition said.
APNU+AFC said that the continued harassment of Afro-Guyanese professionals as well as supporters of the APNU+AFC is inimical to good governance and will further exacerbate racial and political tensions.
