LNP, Immigration, LDEA Agents Stand Spellbound
By Edwin M. Fayia, III, edwinfayia@gmail.com
A vital mini joint security check point mounted in the Parker Paint area and the Wood Camp Community entry point in Paynesville was on Thursday June 25, 2020 forcibly dismantled by a band of motorcyclists riding at terrific speed from the Bilical community in the western end.
Security guards manning the post were shock and stood in total disbelief as the rampaging cyclists rushed in.
Motives behind their action, which took place during the peak hours of the COVID-19 restrictions, remain unclear. none of the cyclists involved could be reached for comments.
Some of those who saw the scene firsthand expressed outrage and grave concern over the cyclists’ action.
“We think and now believe that our commercial motorcyclists have gone out hand and control. Anarchy, chaos and hooliganism are becoming the order of the day in Paynesville and its environs,” Mr. Francis George Brooks asserted in frustration.
However, when contacted, two young men who claimed (no official identities) pointed out those that carried out the action were mixed with criminal gangsters disguised as motorcyclists.
At the same time some former security personnel who spoke to the News Public Trust, say the action might have been sparked by rampant extortions and harassment carried out reportedly by government’s security personnel against motorcyclists.
Former Criminal Investigation Agent Robertson T. Padmore, 68, intimated that the sector nowadays has been infiltrated by untrained and unprofessional men and women whose overall objective is extortion, intimidation and harassment of especially business people.
It can be recalled that the checkpoint that was attacked is the same venue that a senior officer of the LNP Press and Communications Department was attacked by a police aide and publicly disgraced and humiliated in the name of enforcing the COVID19 health regulations and State of Emergency restrictions in late March 2020 in Paynesville.
Besides, a cyclist is said to have also been recently chained at the main Parker Paint check point for almost an hour but later released following the intervention of LNP spokesman Moses Carter.
Additionally, it was also at the same facility that a row between a police officer and a resident of Woodcamp degenerated into a fist fight that sparked angry reactions, an altercation that claimed the attention and intervention police commanders in the Paynesville municipality.
Following huge public outcries over “hostile” behaviour of police at the Parker Paint Check Point in recent time, LNP authorities withdrew some of the officers believe to have been involved in unwholesome acts in the name of enforcing the State of Emergency and COVID-19 restrictions.
Residents and business owners of the Wood Camp Community in Paynesville want some sort of reorientation strategies to avert recurrence of ethical transgressions witnessed in recent days at the checkpoint.