citizensreport.com
The Police Commissioner and Chief Immigration Officer, Seelall Persaud, will not be releasing the names of the 200 persons reportedly blacklisted by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) from leaving Guyana.
Persaud was written to directly by Opposition Parliamentarian, Juan Edghill, on May 9, 2017. Prior attempts to have Persaud respond to queries on the matter proved futile.
Now, weeks later, the Police Commissioner has finally responded to Edghill.
Persaud’s letter dated May 22, 2017, seen by Citizens’ Report, said: “The Guyana Police Force has been advised by the Police Legal Advisor that you should request such information through the Commissioner of Information under the Access to Information Act 2011.”
Edghill, in an invited comment on the matter, said, “It (moving to the Commissioner of Information) is an action that I have already taken. My action is publicly known. For the Police Commissioner to write me a letter, delivered on May 24, is tantamount to saying ‘you know what you have to do, do it.”
The Opposition Parliamentarian added that presently he is awaiting Persaud’s response to the Commissioner of Information. “I am disappointed. I don’t think it is a difficult thing for the high office of the Police Commissioner to disclose the names of the persons who have been blacklisted.”
Meanwhile, attempts to contact Persaud for a comment on the Commissioner of Information’s letter to him proved futile.