Working People’s Alliance (WPA) activist, Tacuma Ogunseye, turned himself in to the Police CID Headquarters yesterday morning in the company of attorneys Nigel Hughes and Darren Wade following a wanted bulletin that was issued for him on Thursday.
Hughes told Stabroek News that Ogunseye was handed over to the police at the Criminal Investigation Department at approximately 10:00 am. He asked the police rank for the officer in charge to ask further questions but was told by a rank that he wouldn’t be able to provide the information.
Ogunseye was transferred to the Brickdam Police Station and placed in custody.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told this newspaper that Ogunseye remain-ed in police custody up to yesterday afternoon. He further stated that he would not be able to provide information on whether or not Ogunseye will be charged or granted station bail.
The police issued a wanted bulletin on Thursday for Ogunseye over statements he made on a political platform.
The bulletin said that on March 9 at Buxton Public Road, Ogunseye attempted to excite hostility or ill-will on the grounds of race, contrary to Section 3 of the Racial Hostility Act, Chapter 23:01.
Ogunseye, while at a WPA meeting on Thursday night in the village of Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) made several claims about the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) using the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force in the past to “execute” Africans and encouraged his ethnic group, especially those who are members of the Joint Services, to be “battle ready” for a “fight.”
During the meeting which was recorded and shared on the Facebook profile of KAMS TV, the party member could be heard referring to his version of events in Buxton, 2002, “…In 2002, 2005, when Buxton got interrupted into an unfortunate situation which arose because of the PPP policy of executing Africans using the police force and then the phantom force and Buxton find itself in the cross road.
