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The Linden Commission of Inquiry is about to wrap up its hearings and will in time by way of accurate documentation forward their findings to the government. I know what that report will reveal, the answer is blowing in the wind; a foregone conclusion. You cannot tell me a bunch of hooligans blocking a bridge which is the main communication route into and through the community looted and burned down private as well as government-owned properties would have the gall to seek compensation.
I believe these people are really out of their minds. But this is exactly what their plans are. This is exactly their objective in the setting up of a COI, that is, to prove to the world that being a violent bully pays off. I shall highlight a few examples into the Linden COI and what is the Opposition’s concept of a Commission of Inquiry. I shall also prove to my readers, what is the opposition’s expectation of the contents of the Commission’s final report.
Please take note of the following:
1. The GRA building burnt to the ground resulting in over $200M in damage. Never happened just a figment of the imagination
2. The burning of the PPP/C’s office in Linden, reducing it to ashes. Another figment of the imagination. That fire was started by persons that could be identified because the security saw them, they took the keys from him went into the building and set it alight. That security officer could not testify because he fears for his life – he has to live among the savages. No eyewitness, no charge. The government should let that pass and chalk it up to the “too bad” category of things. No compensation.
3. The razing of the Wismar Primary School. We have no recollection of this occurring, the possibility that it all started by an apparition.
4. The burning of the NICIL building. Protesters did it, yet still we do not know who did it. This was an old colonial structure that was a tinder box. Should have been burnt ever since. The government should bear the cost. No compensation.
5. Numerous private individuals whose homes were burnt and their property vandalised like that gentleman who was contracted to cut up those huge logs that prevented ingress and egress to the mining town. Those individuals should have known better not to be there
while the “protest” was in progress, so those persons should suck up the costs. No compensation.
6. Three young protesters shot dead. This we (protesters) saw the shots coming from the guns of the policemen who were sent there to shoot the protesters, the orders coming from the Minister of Home Affairs. This is the naked truth, we saw them we have the telephone
records to prove. Come to find out the bullets never came from the police according to expert testimony of the ballistics expert; nor was there any order coming from the minister. So let us put aside The expert’s testimony and focus on what could have happened and how those guys got killed. The verdict is returned, full compensation for the surviving relatives.
7. Those vendors and other comrades lending criminal support must be compensated also. That it is their right to be hooligans and must be compensated for this.
There you have it; this is what Nigel Hughes and company would want the public to believe and the Commission to accept as good and normal behaviour and in the final analysis reward their horrendous efforts. Fantastic!
I see this COI writing a report similar to that of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We all have laid out the facts though painful it is and must here close the book. We must close this sorry chapter of our history by saying “forgive us this day our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen and Amen.
