Dear Editor,
IN his letter (17/7/2017) Mr. Anil Nandlall baffled over “how did certain prisoners got (sic) access to firearm so quickly”? If Mr. Nandlall was paying attention to what has been reported repeatedly, prisoners attacked prison warden Wickham, stabbed him several times, and then relieved him of his weapon. He was shot and died later.
The focus should have been on the bravery and heroism of Odinga Wickham, but Nandlall looks the other way, and sees the crime being the possession by the murderers of a firearm and not the cold- blooded murder of a prison official, who blocked the gate in his failed attempt to stop dangerous criminals from escaping on July 9, 2017.
Mr. Nandlall must come out of his slumber of bafflement and answer how the drug lord who was a friend of his regime had an arsenal of weapons during the “troubles”. He was detained with his guns at Cove and John, then released with his bag of guns. He must explain how 14 AK-47 disappeared from the army headquarters and, how a known criminal had his gun upgraded just after he killed a food vendor in cold blood over $20 Guyana dollars.
I bet Mr. Nandlall would be baffled when told that at the time he left office as Attorney General, there was severe over-crowding of the Camp Street Prison. There were over 1,000 prisoners at the facility that was made for 600. That was “an accident waiting to happen”. The prison was left in a state compared to an open air bazaar. Prisoners were supplied with phones, drugs and perhaps, guns! It would take more than two years to clear that mess left by Nandlall and company!
Regards
Earl Hamilton