BTW, my last post was in reference to THIS story:
MUSA REFUSED FAIR HEARING
Belize City, June 24, 1998
With only five days left for the UDP term of office to
expire, hundreds of voices rang out this morning in
Belmopan to remind PM Esquivel that enough is
enough and that the people would not be distracted
by the five years of UDP witch hunting.
Party supporters and observers flocked to the
Magistrate's Court in Belmopan where PUP Leader
Said Musa had been summoned to face a bogus
Commission of Inquiry chaired by UDP messengers
Harry Lui and Bill Tillett. This is the sixth time that the
UDP has attempted to embarrass Mr Musa with
allegations of irregularities in the Economic
Citizenship Programme. They have failed and will fail
again! Mr Musa has declared that there was
absolutely no wrong doing on his part.
Since last week various persons have been instructed
to appear before the Lui kangaroo court where they
have been harangued and harassed. But the political
charade of the UDP continues right into their final
hours in office. They are holding this ridiculous bogus
inquiry in the Magistrate's Court in Belmopan.
On Wednesday Chairman Harry Lui, Net Vasquez's
book keeper known to bear personal malice against
the PUP Leader, refused to comply with the requests
made by attorneys for Mr Musa. Appearing on
behalf of Mr Musa, Eamon Courtenay questioned
the purpose of the BIS television cameras which he
pointed out were being used to record the
proceedings for UDP political ads. Lui outrightly
refused the request. Courtenay then demanded that
evidence and documents in the possession of the
Commission be provided to Mr Musa and that
witnesses who had testified be recalled to be cross
examined. Courtenay also asked for a disclosure of
the proceedings. Showing his obvious bias, Lui
refused all the requests made on behalf of Mr Musa.
Courtenay objected strenuously to these refusals on
the grounds that it infringed on the rights of the PUP
Leader to a fair hearing as guaranteed by law. Mr.
Lui gave no quarter, clearly on the instructions of his
political bosses. When it was obvious that the bogus
Commission would not allow for an independent and
fair hearing. Mr Musa, on the advice of his attorneys,
left the Magistrate's Court. He was met by hundreds
of supporters bearing placards and making their
demands known to the UDP.
The entire gathering then marched to the PUP Cayo
South headquarters in Belmopan, where an
impromptu rally took place addressed by Deputy
Party Leader Max Samuels, Hon Florencio Marin
and Standard Bearer Agripino Cawich.
The crowd grew boisterous as Musa took the
podium. Mr Musa reiterated that despite the many
attempts at malicious persecution by the UDP, he
and the PUP would not be daunted in their fight to
free Belize from the despotic administration of the
UDP. He finished with the popular message to UDP
to 'CALL ELECTIONS NOW!'
The message is clear - the people want out. Out of
the abuse, the negligence, the corruption and the
tyranny of the UDP. The UDP has run long enough,
and now they must face the people.
Attorneys for Mr Musa have applied to the Supreme
Court asking the judge to review the appointment
and activities of the bogus Commission. It is
expected that the Supreme Court will give Musa
leave to produce evidence of Harry Lui's bias and of
the complete denial of his rights. If successful the
result of these proceedings will probably be that the
entire Commission will be quashed.
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