After demanding to see the President, a Nigerian man stabbed a State House guard five times and seized a gun from another before he was seriously injured in a shootout on Carmichael Street yesterday.
Both the Nigerian, Dethiel Chimezie, 25, and the presidential guard, Constable Telon Perreira were in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) up to press time.
The incident will raise serious questions about the level of security at State House. The Heads of the Joint Services held a meeting yesterday but up to press time there was no word on what was discussed.
