The call by supposed ‘civil society,’ that the Attorney General must go, rests upon the concoctions and figments of Kaieteur News. The noxious way the entity is still (mis)behaving, as regards this issue, is like trying to infect a non-existent sore, claiming, on behalf of (some imaginary) civil society, that there is illegality,a  threat that is imagined by implication and omission, in the ‘peeped and staged’ conversation, between the AG and possibly a planted KN reporter.
This threat is overtly absent linguistically; semantically, a whiff has to be inserted by virtue of implication and omission. Yet the unholy triumvir of Christopher Ram, Dr. David Hinds, and Glenn Lall are seeking to resurrect it. The members know that they have no solid legal ground to stand on. There is definitely too ‘much ado about nothing’ in the matter.
Issues-One
This unholy ‘trinity-Christopher Ram, Dr. David Hinds and Glenn Lall- did not speak out, nor protest’ in the aftermath of the March 2003 Brian Hamilton execution-style killing. This is hard core stuff and needs no mental contortions to discern ‘right and wrong’ and ‘moral versus immoral.’ The revelations can stimulate a sickening burst of vomiting.
When Hamilton was killed, at the gas station in Buxton, Nigel Hughes showed up, but this was kept low, as it had (and still has) that ring of collusion. Erstwhile President Bharat Jagdeo knew that there was a video recording of the killing, but opined that Hughes had surreptitiously shown up and taken away the tape and that the police subsequently never recovered the recording, or its un-doctored version.
When this clandestine deed was revealed, only then Hughes tried to clear the air, and even now his embarrassing knee-jerk reaction smacks of criminality.
“I visited Mr. Oscar Hamilton, Brian’s father, who informed me that the Police had requested that he (Hughes) attend his petrol station, as there was a surveillance tape still in the recording machine, which the Police were unable to eject.”
Hughes further elaborated: “Mr. Hamilton asked me if I would take him to Buxton which I did. He further informed me that he was concerned about the police securing the tape without providing him with a copy….On arrival at Buxton … Mr. Hamilton ejected the tape and asked the crime scene officer if he could keep the tape for the purpose of making a copy. He was granted permission.”
This is from a supposed seasoned lawyer.
Freddie Kissoon’s View
This so incensed Frederick Kissoon, Hughes’ ardent and almost catamitish devotee, that he wrote to Stabroek News almost immediately, calling for Nigel Hughes to “resign his leadership role in the Guyana Bar Association.”
He asked in that missive: “Did Mr. Hughes commit an offence?”  He also emphatically stated his conviction: “I believe a lawyer can argue that it has to be proven under the Criminal Act that Mr. Hughes meant to defeat the course of justice. But the law is no fool. Anyone could be allowed to take away evidence and innocently claim that they were acting in the best interest of the murdered victim. Surely the law cannot be that stupid to assume that persons can take away evidence from a crime scene with good intentions.” Amen!
He continued and explained that “… The fact that Mr. Hughes kept the tape for three days opens himself to diverse types of suspicion. It is reasonable for a curious mind to ask if the tape was tampered with. Two senior policemen and a well-placed journalist told me that the tape was altered.”
He then concluded, “Now what is my opinion? I have read the Criminal Law Act (Offences) and it is clear to me that Chap. 8:01 applies to what Mr. Hughes did at the gas station. Here are the relevant passages.”
329-Anyone who conspires with any person to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the course of justice shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to imprisonment for two years.
330-Anyone who willfully attempts in any way, though not otherwise criminal, to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or default the course of justice or the administration of the law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to imprisonment for one year.
Issues-Two
Again, the dirty ‘trinity-Christopher Ram, Dr. David Hinds, and Glenn Lall- did not speak out, nor protest’ in August 2013, when Vernon Griffith, the jury foreman in the Lusignan massacre trial, had to be ‘banned for life,’ from sitting as a juror in this country, after he failed to disclose that he was a longstanding client of the Defence Attorney.
Hughes himself did not advise him to do so, something which should have been natural for any lawyer.
He however again waited to be exposed then offered a long winding permutation that lost grounding, by virtue of prolixity and irrelevance. His obvious reason was to obfuscate; the end result is that he was acting like a man, trying to extricate himself (after the fact).
Reputation
According to an Observer entry, Nigel Hughes is a lawyer with a history of criminal association. He seems very closely connected to an alleged drug kingpin, said to be wanted in the U.S. This kind of infamy is consistent with Hughes’ record too, showing that the man has a proclivity for providing pro-bono legal representation to criminal elements.
Hughes’s party (AFC) has repeatedly joined APNU in voting against several pieces of crime fighting legislation. People just have to wonder now.
So what is this clamouring now, that Government’s position, in allowing the AG to remain in office reflects “poorly” on the Administration (saying that even the Bar Association of Guyana has called for Nandlall’s resignation?).
The trio of Ram, Hinds and Lall must be mentally torpid! The three form a most sordid ménage-a-trois.
Classic Cases-‘wiretapping’ is serious
Two from this year suffice.
Adam “Ademo” Mueller got himself in big trouble; he was sentenced to three months in jail
A jury found Mueller guilty of illegal wiretapping in a police-brutality case.
And British journalist Andy Coulson was sentenced to 18 months in prison, in a case of massive phone tapping.
Rohee’s Call-time to act against Lall
The contradiction is that Lall is part of the group, protesting the AG; this is the very man he is guilty of committing a crime against. Glen Lall planted a venal and colloguing reporter and invaded the privacy of Anil Nandlall and all Guyana are silent. The crime of invading privacy is heinous and disgusting. It is tantamount to voyeurism at times and makes of Lall, not just a criminal, but one who loves self-titillating.
Lall seems likely to have been in this ‘wire-phone-tapping business for some time now. He is most likely still with it.
A number of sources have it that Lall has illegal phone recordings of members of almost every sector of society, including the Judiciary, the Police, the Army, the business community, the Diplomatic Corps and Government and Opposition officials.
This is probably what is fuelling his actions of impunity and dare, to the point of going against the very man he has offended.
Clement Rohee must act-not just call
Clement Rohee is upset and says that “… if there are more recordings, then let the recordings be released …” Maybe Lall is bluffing.
However, it is time he be raided and be turned in. He must answer for his egregious sin and crime.
He has contravened the sacred law that forbids ‘wiretapping.’ It is this statute that allows for a commodious life in civil society; it must be upheld.

Faruk Mohamed