– reveals his books helped to boot coalition gov’t from office

THE 14 Commonwealth Law Reports, which Anil Nandlall was persecuted for and eventually placed before the court under the APNU/AFC administration, was the same books that assisted him in removing that government from office.

It was alleged that between May 8, 2015, and May 29, 2015, having 14 law reports, valued at $2,313,853 and property of the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Nandlall fraudulently took or converted the law books to his own use and benefit.

Attorney-General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, revealed on Saturday during a virtual press conference that “those very books I was charged for, was very instrumental in removing them from office. Those books served their very purpose to putting them out of office.”
Nandlall explained that a number of cases cited in those books emerged during the legal battles which followed the March 2, 2020, General and Regional Elections.
“The charges are still pending and we will have to see how that proceeds. I will not use my influence as minister to interfere although an injustice was done to me,” he noted.

Nandlall said if he cannot defend himself and his own property as a lawyer, then he is unfit to represent anybody and unfit to hold office as AG.
“An audit was done by Mr. (Basil) Williams by the Audit Office of Guyana into those law books in February 2016 and the report said in conclusions in relation to the law report, the Commonwealth law book/reports acquired by the ministry were not subject to storekeeping procedures and were not required to since the Commonwealth law reports purchased by the ministry during the period was delivered to the former Attorney-General, Anil Nandlall, as part of his conditions of service as attorney-general and Minister of Legal Affairs,” Nandlall said.

He said the 2016 audit report had exonerated him and the law books from any wrong doing “but Basil Williams instructed and directed SOCU to institute those charges against me. When those charges were instituted, I said it publicly that it was never a matter of the books, it was a matter of principle and those books are my property.”
He said he told SOCU representative that if the State was in need of law books, he would donate new ones.
Nandlall then went ahead and ordered the exact 14 books he was accused of taking from the ministry and offered it to the Ministry of Legal Affairs, or any other State agency that was in need.

“I purchased the 14 books and will donate to the State. They refused to accept it and proceeded to charge me for larceny. It was a matter of principle. I could have gone to jail for my property, in defence of my rights. Whichever arm of the State needs it, I will donate it,” the AG said while holding up one of the new books on Saturday.