I HAD an argument with Kian Jabour and the leader of ANUG, Dr. Mark France on the Freddie Kissoon Show about the qualifications of Dexter Todd.
I don’t know about Mr. Todd’s qualifications and so I refused to accept what France and Jabour were telling me about his training. France told me on air that I was ignorant of Todd’s qualifications which he (France) said he was familiar with because he saw Todd’s curriculum vitae.

I haven’t seen Todd’s CV and I am not interested in seeing it. I judge the quality of Todd based on his role as the family lawyer to the Adriana Younge family. Here is a list of Mr. Todd’s failings that makes me advise Guyanese not to vote for him since Todd wants to become a parliamentarian.

One – Todd as I have repeated in a column on him last week should have been sued for libel by the three pathologists that did the original autopsy. Even a tenth-rate lawyer knows that if you repeat a scandalous statement published by someone, you are liable to be sued for slander.
Todd told this nation that the Younge family thinks that those three pathologists were “infiltrated” and thus they rejected their findings. Even a tenth-rate lawyer knows that is an aspersion on the men’s character.

Two- Todd told this nation that the autopsy was open to question because the pathologists could have been under stress based on crowd confusion at the Georgetown Hospital.
Three – The police are contradicting Todd using euphemisms rather than calling him a liar. The police have made their accusations twice against Todd. The first time was months ago when they contradicted what Todd told the pubic after the police had a meeting with Todd. The police rejected the version told to the media by Todd.
The second accusation came last week when the Crime Chief contradicted Todd by informing the nation that as a generous, open gesture to the nation, the police overlooked protocol and gave Todd the original autopsy report yet Todd has publicly said he is not in receipt of the document.

Four- Mr. Todd cannot escape the description of his behaviour as being comical after his latest bizarre, shambolic, dystopian, asinine mouthing off. Mr. Todd informed the Guyanese people that an international investigating team is in Guyana to probe the Adriana Younge death. But the identity of the team is a closely guarded secret.
But more asininity, more comicality, more miasma flows. Todd said that when this secret, unknown team is finished with its work, Todd will submit their findings to the Guyana Police Force and the DPP. Could anyone be more barefaced and sillier than Dexter Todd?

The police and the DPP accept the report and said thank you from a team the public does not know anything about.
Is this the man that wants to be part of the Government of Guyana after September 2025? Is this the man that if the PNC wins that may become the Attorney-General (AG)? I say unapologetically, CN Sharma will make a better AG.

But what about the family of Adriana Younge? Are they happy that an investigating group is in Guyana and no one in Guyana, maybe except Todd, knows who or what these people are? Isn’t the family aware that such a farce is bound to stain their daughter’s name and their name too?
In which country, a secret school of forensic investigators descend upon the scene to investigate a tragedy that made headlines in the region and further abroad and their identity has to be kept invisible.

Todd in an abuse of his political obligation (he is running for state office) to the Guyanese people did not see the need to tell the newspaper he spoke to why the forensic group’s identity cannot be made known.

Doesn’t Todd feel that this is an explanation that must be given? There has to be a reason why the team’s composition cannot be made public. My position on this unknown school of investigators is that they should not have been given work permits by the Guyana Government if they cannot tell the public what their status and their past professional work are so they can be researched.

Guyana knows the name of the three original pathologists, the identity of the fourth pathologist and the former RCMP forensic specialist. My advice to the police is to revoke the visas of this team. They may be here for political purposes. Mr. Todd is a PNC candidate in the national election.

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