How honest is Granger when he says the PNC/R has never received money from criminals?

OLD Kai has seen and heard it all, after Opposition leader David Granger pronounced authoritatively that the PNC/R has never received money from criminals.

The media has quoted David Granger, in response to PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee accusing the party of being funded by criminals as saying, “I can say with absolute certainty that the People’s National Congress

(PNC) has always stood on the side of law and order and we have never received dirty money, we’ve never received money from criminals, we’ve never been the beneficiary of the proceeds of crime so I cannot see what Mr. Rohee is talking about.”

Well, if Mr. Granger cannot see what the PPP official is talking about then he is definitely blind to reality and the documented history of his party.

Must I repeat recent testimony from a former member of the House of Israel and PNC/R MP, in the ongoing Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry, who detailed how the organisation supported the PNC, which did not only include being a terrorist arm of the party. All Guyanese who lived during that period knows this except David Granger, so I was correct when I referred to him last year as Rip Van Winkle. He has proven my contention that he suffers from convenient amnesia.

Granger, in typical PNC/R style, brings up the Roger Khan bogey by stating, “It is well established that persons such as Roger Khan who has been convicted in another jurisdiction for cocaine trafficking and other crimes was a close associate of the People’s Progressive Party. He actually published a full page advertisement in the newspaper stating that he is collaborating with the Police under the PPP in what he called crime fighting.”

Note there that Granger specifically indicates that Roger Khan stated he was collaborating with the “Police” and then conveniently brings in the PPP as members of that party obviously make up the Government.

But can Mr. Granger tell us who exactly the Commissioner of Police was during this period? It appears he has suffered from his convenient amnesia again, so Old Kai will help him out.

In a statement by Roger Khan to the Guyanese people via a paid and signed advertisement in the daily newspapers, he had indicated that “he and the Commissioner of Police were close friends for over four (4) years.”
He had also indicated that during this time he was in contact with a senior GDF officer, helping to locate the stolen AK47 weapons.

What we do know now is that both the heads of the GPF and GDF at that time are close associates of David Granger and currently occupy prominent positions within his party.

Khan had even stated in the ad that he was willing to “answer any questions relating to my relationship with Winston Felix in a Commission of Inquiry under oath and even under a polygraph test. Is Winston Felix (APNU’s current Shadow Minister of Home Affairs) prepared to do the same?”

Let us now move on to the infamous telephone conversation between the then Commissioner of Police and a senior official of the PNC/R, who were overheard discussing the disappearance of a large sum of foreign currency from Congress Place and were hatching a nefarious plan, to plant drugs on a PNC/R employee who was a suspect.

Does Mr. Granger still believe that his PNC/R has never associated with criminal activities and received any such proceeds? But then again, maybe he was sleeping through this period and cannot remember.

Therefore, we will move on to another former PNC/R Member of Parliament, Abdul Kadir who is currently serving life imprisonment in a U.S. penitentiary on terrorism charges. Are we to still believe Granger’s contention that his party has never associated with criminals and received any proceeds whatsoever from dubious characters?

Granger’s chief spokesperson and current Member of Parliament, Joseph Harmon was the military intelligence chief, so are we to accept that he nor the PNC/R never had, even an inkling of such information?

It appears that Granger’s condition is contagious, as both himself, Felix, Collins, Harmon, Corbin, etc, are currently suffering from convenient amnesia.

Certain members of the media also seem to be affected by this condition, as they were the ones badgering Rohee for evidence of his claims during the PPP press conference, when they have been in the media for donkey years and have been exposed to these facts not to mention, they were also formerly employed by the PNC so they would have inside knowledge.

Let me conclude, by referencing Granger’s response to Rohee regarding the image which surfaced of himself and slain gunman Kevin Fields on Facebook as he is quoted as saying in his defence, “I meet thousands of people when I go out, I don’t ask them to identify themselves…everywhere I go, I meet people.”

You see Mr. Granger that is not the issue. What is causing suspicion was the sudden removal of the image of you and Kevin Fields from your Facebook page, shortly after the gunman was killed. If you are so convinced in your statement of having no links to the gunman, why was the image removed?