Find Crum-Ewing’s killers – President urges police

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Persons gather outside of the Legal Affairs Ministry to protest the killing of Crum-Ewing
Persons gather outside of the Legal Affairs Ministry to protest the killing of Crum-Ewing

As the police continue to review CCTV footage from the Diamond community hoping for a breakthrough in the investigations into the execution of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, President Donald Ramotar has instructed the top brass of the Force to leave no stone unturned in their probe into the man’s Tuesday night murder.

Speaking at the opening of the Police Officers’ Conference on Thursday morning, President Ramotar told senior police officers gathered that he strongly condemns the killing and wants a full investigation that should take them to wherever the evidence leads.

“I wish from this forum to out rightly condemn that action and to call on the Police Force to leave no stone unturned in finding those who perpetrated this crime and if necessary, if it exists, to find the intellectual authors of this criminal act”, the President said.

According to Mr. Ramotar, he is already concerned that some persons are seeing the execution styled killing of the 40-year-old former army officer as the “first political assassination for the season”. He said persons who may have information about the murder should make themselves and the information available to the police who continue to investigate the matter.

Crum-Ewing was shot dead while using a loud hailer on Tuesday evening to encourage residents of the Diamond community to head to the polls on May 11 and vote the current administration out of office.

He has been a fierce critic of the Donald Ramotar administration since he moved back to Guyana from Antigua in 2013.  For several weeks, he hosted a one man protest outside the office of the Attorney General calling for the Attorney General to step down from office.

The Opposition coalition APNU/AFC have strongly condemned the activist’s murder and have called for a full and thorough investigation into the incident.

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