Gya: Gajraj allegations must be investigated

The issue of state-sponsored terrorism must be totally exposed and the mounting of an inquiry into the allegations about the involvement of Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj in the activities of a death squad is non-negotiable.

PNCR leader Robert Corbin says the resumption of the engagement with Presi-dent Bharrat Jagdeo would have to be about the composition of the inquiry and its terms of reference and governance, since the Gajraj affair is but one manifestation that the present system of governance is inadequate to the needs of the society.

Corbin, who announced his party's disengagement from the talks with Jagdeo last month, yesterday refuted Jagdeo's assertion at a press conference on April 2 at the Office of the President that they had not had an opportunity to discuss the issue.

Corbin reportedly told his party's general council that he and Jagdeo had spent 40 minutes discussing the issue during which he had suggested to him how he could have dealt with it.

Corbin also denied that it was he who broke off the talks when he announced his party's disengagement from the process in his broadcast to the nation on March 24. His announcement, he said, merely recognised the reality that Jagdeo and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon, by their pronouncements and sloth over implementing decisions had constructively disengaged him from the process.