Apparently Moses Nagamootoo forgot the role his colleague Nigel Hughes played in securing the freedom of members of a gang which perpetrated Charlie Hebdo styled massacres at a Kaieteur News facility as well as several other attacks at Lusignan, Bartica & Agricola. Or could it be a case of convenient amnesia? 

Speaking at a recent AFC press briefing Nagamootoo correlated the attack on satirical magazine in Paris, Charlie Hebdo and aspects of a private conversation between Attorney General Anil Nandlall and a Kaieteur News reporter. “You know the song Eddie Hooper said take warning, you better do good; Nandlall had given this country a warning that it is possible that you could have terrorist attack on newspapers and that Journalists could be killed and nobody took Nandlall’s warning seriously, they let him off the hook and so we saw today what literally a script written by Nandlall being played out in Paris and whether you say those were Islamic extremists or Islamic fundamentalists or Islamic totalitarians, it’s not very important,” he said.

But what the AFC Vice Chairman failed to mention is that many moons before the AG’s warning Kaieteur News suffered a similar attack when gunmen belonging to a gang dubbed ‘Freedom fighters’ by the PNC(now APNU) stormed its printing press facility at Eccles, killing five of the newspapers’ employees in the process.Back then the newspaper was deemed to be a mouthpiece of the PPP. The teenagers who carried out the act were part of a larger gang which killed dozens, including women and children in their sleep, at several locations across Guyana. Some members of the gang were brought before the court for the murders at Lusignan after another former member took a plea deal in exchange for testimony against them. Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes, also the AFC Chairman and Nagamootoo’s buddy, provided his services in defense of one of the accused, free of cost. After the trial was completed and a not guilty verdict returned it was learnt that also Hughes failed to disclose a six year attorney/client relationship between himself and the jury foreman.

So you see Nagamootoo saw a relation between the AG’s comment and the ‘terrorism’ which took place in Paris, he even saw in the AG the ingredients of the terrorists who perpetrated the act, but saw nothing unusual in his colleague’s pro-bono defense of the local terrorists who perpetrated similar acts against Kaieteur News and numerous other Guyanese. He saw no terrorist ingredients in his colleague when he removed and possibly doctored a video recording of the murder of a businessman by a local terrorist.