FOUR months after 16-year-old Safraz Sattaur hanged himself in his Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara home, following allegations that he was threatened by three welfare officers, the Education Ministry said an investigation has found no evidence to incriminate them.

Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam told the Guyana Chronicle that neither was there a finding of anything to suggest that the officials did what they were accused of by villagers of Anna Catherina.
He said a report of the concluded probe was sent to Education Minister, Priya Manickchand.
Relatives of the teen, however, are still contending that the officers had no legal right to speak to the lad without permission from his parents and that a grave injustice was done when they visited him in their absence and even persisted in questioning him about the death of his girlfriend, Natasha Nazamudeen, 15, who had, three weeks before, ended her own life.
On January 4, Sattaur’s parents had returned home to find him hanging in his bedroom, minutes after he was visited by the officers.

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They stimulated him to commit suicide because they threatened him, charged Anthony Johnson, one of the men who claimed to have overheard an officer issuing the threat.
The man said one of the officers warned Sattaur that, if he didn’t talk, he could get jail and, upon hearing those words, he approached the officer and admonished him to stop harassing the teen.
Fifteen minutes after the officers departed, Sattaur was found dead.

His family told the Guyana Chronicle they were shocked when the ministry denied offering them compensation.
A woman relative insisted that somebody from the ministry called and offered to compensate them for the death but they refused the offer because they want to see the officers relieved of their duties.
“We are not giving up. We will seek legal action and we are going to get justice,” she said.
However, the ministry maintained that no such proposition was put to the family.