MINISTER of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has dismissed allegations in an article in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek Newspaper titled ‘Ramsammy confronted at UK meeting over prorogation, alleged links to Roger Khan’.

The article stated that the minister came under fire at a recent forum in the UK for misleading Guyanese citizens about the government’s suspension of Parliament and over his alleged ties to now convicted drug kingpin Roger Khan. The Stabroek News said Ramsammy was confronted by self-described political activist Norman Browne, who questioned why he was at the forum and not the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Minister Ramsammy, told the Government Information Agency (GINA), that, “my own impression is that it was orchestrated because one person came to tape that part of the meeting, only that part and once they said what they said, they left.”

He pointed out that he was in London for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) meeting and during his stay, the High Commissioner in London invited him to a meeting to allow him to interact with the Diaspora.

Dr. Ramsammy added that during the meeting the interest of the Diaspora was that of the Prorogation of the Parliament and that is what he centered his discussion on. However, about 15 minutes into the discussion he was interrupted by a man who walked in and “seemed to take over the meeting”.

The Agriculture Minister described this individual’s behaviour as insulting, uncouth and loud. Minister Ramsammy pointed out that at this point the Chairman of the meeting appealed to the man that he waits until the minister was finished speaking to ask questions, but the young man refused to do so.

This was followed by calls from the participants at the meeting for him to allow the minister to speak, but these also went unheard. He made allegations towards various Guyanese ministers such as they are on the wanted list among others.

As for statements in the newspaper about the police’s intervention, the minister said he has no knowledge of such.