OLD Kai is amused at the Opposition antics as the revelations during the ongoing Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry become more detailed and the shadowy figures involved become clearer to Guyanese during the darkest period in our history.

This has resulted in the PNC/APNU leadership running around like headless chickens trying to do damage control but in the process only incriminating themselves further.

On one hand the PNC=APNU leadership has sought to undermine the revelations of Mr. Hamilton during the ongoing CoI, denying his accusations and accusing him of perjury.

Then Old Kai exposed an instance during his cross examination where the PNC’s lead counsel Basil Williams, through his line of questioning, did not seek to deny Mr. Hamilton’s account of clandestine meetings between the PNC and House of Israel but rather sought to establish that the witness was not senior enough at the time to have been part of ‘those meetings.’

Now we have Mr. David Granger’s spokesperson and former military colleague, Joseph Harmon, suggesting that Mr. Hamilton should now resign from the National Assembly following his revelations and give account of the weapons which he claims were issued to the House of Israel.

The APNU spokesperson through his statement clearly believes the contentions of Mr. Hamilton. Why else would he ask him to resign? Therefore, he must now answer as to why his party sought to deny the disclosures of Mr. Hamilton in the first instance.

Secondly, by his acknowledgement of the testimony of Mr. Hamilton, Harmon is guilty of seeking to attack the messenger rather than confronting the message, when he suggests that the witness should give account for the guns which were given by the PNC leadership to the House of Israel to conduct their terrorist campaign against political opponents.

It is the PNC and not Mr. Hamilton which has to give account for these guns. By calling on Mr. Hamilton to account for the guns issued to the House of Israel, Mr. Harmon is admitting that this was indeed the case, therefore as a member of the PNC defense team at the CoI he and the entire PNC leadership now have to give account for their actions. Mr. Harmon is therefore, by admission, one of the best suited candidates to answer his own questions.

Additionally, through Harmon’s admission, PNC leader Mr. Robert Corbin will now have to establish why he issued guns to the House of Israel, where he procured them and where are they now. He will also have to indicate the collaborators in the process, as based on the evidence which Mr. Harmon has not sought to contradict, there were several players in the PNC and those placed in specific positions within the State who were involved.

The party’s Presidential candidate, Mr. David Granger, who was implicated by former GDF Chief of Staff, Mr. Norman McLean, and is a self-professed and long standing member of the PNC with membership dating back several decades ago will also have to answer now, following the incriminating admission by the very people they have selected to represent them at the Commission of Inquiry.

Then, we are informed now by Harmon that he hopes that the individuals who have been implicated will be called up “to clear their names.” How can this be when the very Harmon has called on Hamilton to account for the guns issued to the House of Israel by the PNC? What is there to clear up after this admission? Let us also bear in mind that it was the PNC which initially refused to participate in the CoI only for it to belatedly send a legal team to represent its interests at the hearings.

In Harmon’s statement he also incriminates his own leader, Granger, who is on record as stating that, “Human memory, after 34 years, can be contaminated by political propaganda, prejudice and partiality. Human memory is capable of playing tricks with the recollection of past events.” This was prior to the start of the CoI in which the, inclusive of Mr. Granger has suddenly returned? Where then did party had sought to attack and prevent the commencement of the hearings. Is Mr. Harmon now saying that the ‘memory’ of the PNC leaders it go in the first instance?

(To be continued in tomorrow’s edition)