Dear Editor,

IT is most reprehensible that only now the public is hearing from Mr. Paul Slowe. This is in regard to his present situation, where he is immersed in a legal quagmire, and in trying to do some ‘damage control,’ he is accusing President Irfaan Ali of trying to influence him, and by extension the Police Service Commission, many moons ago. Slowe’s reaction stinks.
The sketchy and very vague explanation, in the form of an allegation, is that “… that the President attempted to influence him in a conversation last year…”  Now why this man kept that hidden all the time contradicts common sense and legal recourse. In fact, I think that the impetus for his ‘anti- Ali fabrication’ is that “(he) Mr. Slowe has been slapped with a Ten Million Dollar ($10,000,000) fraud charge, along with a charge for sexual assault.” This top lawman, tasked with enforcing the law, will now have to defend “… receiving millions of dollars from the Guyana

Police Force while being the Chairman of the said Constitutional Commission, wielding disciplinary powers over the very force.”  The old adage rings true again: “Never put a cat to watchman milk.” So, it is quite vile for this Paul Slowe to seek to smear the President, in his effort to come over as some character of moral rectitude.
This same Slowe is under investigation in another (kind) of issue. The news is that “… during the months of March and April 2019, a female Assistant Superintendent, who worked along with Mr. Slowe, was allegedly sexually assaulted by Slowe three times.” No wonder he is so desperate.
The President has rejected Slowe’s accusation of ‘interfering’ and so it is now left for the embattled lawman to produce evidence to back his claim. Then he has to find further proof that the charges against him, of fraud and sexual assault, are false.

Yours sincerely,
Baldeo Mathura