…slams Demwaves ‘misleading’ headline

GOVERNMENT on Tuesday urged citizens to be calm as the Guyana Police Force investigates allegations of a plot to shoot President David Granger.
In a statement issued by the Ministry of the Presidency responding to a “misleading “ Demerara Waves report, the Ministry of the Presidency calls for calm as the Guyana Police Force continues to investigate this matter.

Meanwhile, the MoTP slammed what it described as a sensational and misleading Demerara Waves headline posted on April 24, 2017, “Man fingered in plot to assassinate Granger attended Presidential Adviser’s recent birthday party.”
“The Ministry of the Presidency wishes to inform all and sundry that Mr. Basil Blackman AA, the individual mentioned in the sensational report, is not an adviser to His Excellency David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, neither is he an official of the Ministry of the Presidency.” As such, the Ministry of the Presidency demands that Demerara Waves immediately retract the “erroneous headline and all content of the above-mentioned article which stated that Mr. Basil Blackman is an official of the Ministry of the Presidency.”

Minster of State, Joseph Harmon, at a post-Cabinet briefing last Thursday had disclosed that the administration was provided with some information by the police about their ongoing investigation of a plot to shoot President Granger. He said then that the investigation had reached a point where advice of the police legal advisor is also being sought. “While we have a popular President that all the people around the country love and embrace him, there are sometimes misguided people, especially of what they see on facebook and copycat type of issues and therefore we always have to be careful,” Harmon said. “I have the full confidence of the ability of the security forces to protect our President and the ministers of Government who have been elected by the people to run the Government,” Harmon noted.

Meanwhile, in an interview on Nightly News, a man who claimed that he was approached to carry out the act spoke of a $7M bounty that was offered him to shoot at President Granger during one of his outreaches. The $7M it was said was offered by a prominent individual. The man stated that the businessman told him “… President Granger, we have to have him assassinated before he moves from where he is living, before of course if he moves his security will enhance and you can’t get to him.”

The man explained that the businessman entered his house and brought out a large weapon which he collected and minutes later returned. He explained he had approached the businessman to conduct a business worth $6M when the proposal was made to find someone to assassinate the President and he will be paid $7M. “The next day I go back to he and said watch, me ain’t deh in them thing yo know, me aint event want you tell me back about that,” the informant said, claiming that he never killed anyone before and is just a businessman.