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PNC should use amnesty period to return army weapons – Former President

Over 100 missing high-powered weapons belonging to the Guyana Defense Force that were loaned to the People’s National Congress (PNC) through the Ministry of National Development ought to be returned during the gun amnesty period.

This was the view expressed by Former President, Donald Ramotar, who spoke with a local online news agency.Last August, during the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) Lieutenant Colonel Sydney James testified and submitted documentation that the GDF loaned high-powered military weapons to the PNC which had its General Secretary's office located within the  Ministry of National Development.

The records that Lieutenant James tendered as evidence to the commission show that the GDF loaned 200-odd weapons to the Ministry, as well as paramilitary organisations and other agencies. Of those 200-odd weapons, 155 remain unaccounted for, however in 2008 a gang of bandits were intercepted and several of the weapons found in their possession turned out to be from this lot.

Mr. Ramotar also expressed the hope that high-powered weapons that vanished from the GDF at the base camp in February 2006 will be returned during this period also.

In 2006, some 33 ak-47s, along with five pistols went missing. Seventeen of the weapons which disappeared were been found in the possession of criminals by 2010.