Not the PPP’s call
IT IS not the PPP’s job to call on Nigel Hughes to resign; the PPP’s job is to see to it that no citizen/s are above the law.
Nigel Hughes did what is required of him in representing well-known criminals, even if for free. It is the PPP’s job to hire and appoint competent, non-prejudicial prosecutors, magistrates and judges.From the day Nigel Hughes removed that tape recording from that Buxton gas station killing, he should have been charged for tampering with evidence. In another country, he would have been disbarred; but then we have a sham of a Bar Association, with primary members tarred with the same brush.
Any other citizen who tampered with evidence at a crime scene would have been jailed; but not Nigel Hughes. So, from that day on, Nigel Hughes has been treated as though he is untouchable and bigger than the law.
Nigel Hughes (and Nagamootoo) threatened the President with “consequences” within 40 hours (most likely the time it took to mobilize) if he did not fire Minister Rohee; and the “consequences” erupted when thugs blocked the Agricola Public Road; but the architect of the rampage faced no legal consequences as a result of his threats and the consequential carnage and destruction to people and property that followed. And the fracas in Linden following other threats is now part of Guyana’s sad history.
Again, it was Nigel Hughes in the spotlight with jury-tampering that caused murderers to be set free after they killed innocent children while asleep in their beds in the wee hours of the morning. And it was Nigel Hughes who was preaching to Lindeners that all lands on the East Coast all the way up to Berbice belonged to their African ancestors.
From Day One, when a case jacket ends up in court without its file, the prosecutor should be held accountable. From Day One, when a file without names ends up in court, the prosecutor should be held accountable.
Some shyster lawyers representing members of cartels and terrorists have magistrates and judges in their pockets by having them on their payrolls, or through political affiliation and misguided loyalty; which, although impossible to prove, can be adjudged from the adage: “The proof of the pudding is in the eating”, based on the improbable verdicts in some cases they win.
So, we are calling on the Government again to pass laws to do away with the jury system in Guyana. The connection that was proved between Nigel Hughes and the jury foreman that caused murderers to walk free had been proven to have occurred many times before, when jurors (and even witnesses) sell their integrity for cash and/or kind; and it is happening at present and will continue to happen forever.
Written By T. King
