The soul of the murdered granny is calling on President Granger

NOVEMBER 29, 2015 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER FEATURES / COLUMNISTS, FREDDIE KISSOON

This nation will never learn. Every human being in and out of this country that witnessed the aftermath of the “Mash Day jailbreak” in 2002 would know that remanded accused and convicted prisoners were driven to violence because of the violations they suffered at the hands of the police and judicial officers. Police framed them, courts ignored evidence of strength in their favour, the system denied them a speedy trial and they rotted in jail. A majority of people in this country are not even near to understanding what happened in that “Mash Day jailbreak” and the anger it released in the men who fled, and in the village of Buxton where they took refuge. I am not going over that period for which I have done over twenty articles for the Chronicle at the request of its then editor, Anthony Calder and the Kaieteur News. Suffice it to say there were many in Buxton who willingly joined the gunmen because they wanted to get back at society whom they felt encouraged police, magistrates and judges to violate their rights. Many Buxtonians sympathized with the denunciation of the system by the escapees. What never came out of that story was the fact that the number of planners of the escape totaled as much as ten, but was reduced to eight, then seven and finally five. Think of what would have happened if the original ten had made it out. During the hold-up in Buxton, a document got out that carried the names of persons the gunmen wanted to target. On it were the identities of judicial officers and state officials that many prisoners saw as rights-violators. We have gone right back to the Faustian dungeon of judicial bestiality where young men are reduced to lost souls in jail, while their friends wait like sadistic predators hoping for the opportunity to repeat the mayhem of Buxton. It would be very unwise to think that these youths do not know about the deceit, depravity and hypocrisy in very high places like the judicial system, the police force and the power establishment. They see themselves as the victims of these people. They hang around the older folks and they pick up information on cruel officials who have no right to occupy these high seats of authority. They know about the “Oracle”. They would have picked up that information long ago about a sitting judge who Roger Khan bankrolled. They know about the nouveau riche that have committed many violations that should have brought them heavier sentences than what their friends got for just stealing a cell phone. These convicted men and those on remand in the Camp Street jail know that there are hierarchical members of the police force who are in the pay of demonic businessmen who get away with murder. The “Mash Day jailbreakers” knew the corrupt cops and they wanted to kill them, as in the case of the CANU official who used to take both the narcotics and money when he made his raids, yet arrest those he stole from. They killed him on the Buxton public road during the crime plague, 2002-2005. This columnist wouldn’t dare detail the information of drugs and money that are found on raids, only for both to vanish. Small fish get thrown into the ocean of barbarity while the drug lords and money launderers drink expensive liquor with the senior superintendents. Lawyers told me that Magistrate Alex Moore’s ruling of a suspended sentence for a man who pleaded guilty to possession of 150 pounds of cocaine and an unlicensed shot gun makes a mockery of the entire fabric of this nation. Moore continues as a magistrate. We conclude on a tragic note – the Robb Street granny murder trial. Four men were each given 81 years in jail for the hit on an elderly poor woman who, by any stretch of the imagination, was an ordinary lady without any conceivable type of wealth. She was in a property dispute with a rich man. Guyana knows the rich man paid four destitute African men to kill the lady. The people who ought to be in jail with these four men were the Indian businessman and the police officers that refused to go after the mastermind. The reason was obvious – envelopes talk. Do you think the violent youths out there are so stupid and ignorant that they don’t know the police and the businessman made four African youths from depressed homes the scapegoats? It is said that President Granger is Mr. Honest, Mr. Decent, and Mr. Clean. The soul of granny is calling on him for justice.