“Munroe wants FNM’s probed – Lawyer compiling list of names to send to the police” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Attorney Wayne Munroe said yesterday he is compiling a list of alleged ‘questionable conduct’ by members of the Free National Movement (FNM), which he said he will present to the new Anti-Corruption Unit.

‘I think what needs to happen, and I am beginning to do it, is to compile a list of all the questionable conduct that has been alleged over time against any existing or former politician, be it someone in the present FNM government or retired, and send it to the police and see if they are evenhanded in investigating, arresting, detaining and questioning those persons,’  Munroe said.

‘The police have established what the threshold for arrest is and the threshold for charge is.’

‘I suspect that if they are going to show that they are being even-handed, that those will be investigated in the same manner as these other ones.”

So far, Munroe said he has compiled a list of six names.  He said he expects the list to grow.

I will offer them information in writing to the new corruption unit, which I will deliver with a delivery receipt, and I will sit and wait and see what happens with the investigations,’ he said.

Munroe says he intends to finish his research by the weekend.”

My Morning Paper questions the motives of Mr. Munroe because his motives and actions tend to imply that he questions the work being done by the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s Anti-Corruption Unit but then he has this right but it is really foolish, in my opinion, for Mr. Munroe to suggest that the recent arrests of former members of parliament of the previous Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government have been drive by anything more than complaints from private citizens to the police an being investigated by the anti-corruption unit. 

When Mr. Munroe delivers his packet to the police with it be accompanied with the necessary affidavits containing statement and evidence from ‘others’ verifying that the allegations that they present/contain for intend factual or is Mr. Munroe expecting the police to just take his word for it?

What is Mr. Munroe’s motive here?  To put in a list of names and if not supported with the necessary documentation, then label the on-going investigations and pending court trials as another more that a ‘with-hunt’ to hurt the reputation of former PLP member of parliaments?

I personally have no problem with Mr. Munroe putting for a list of names with the necessary supporting information to warrant them being investigated but to only putting forth a list of names without the supporting documentation is only meant to either ‘stir the pot’ and give the opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) the perceived leverage to claim that the investigation are being handles in an  evenhanded manner or even a blatant attempt to intimidate the Free National Movement (FNM) into stopping it’s investigations all together, which is stupid because the investigation are being carried out by the Royal Bahamas Police Force, and this is not the proper way to conduct serious business such as serious as this but exactly what I feel that Mr. Wayne Munroe QC is going to do, he can always prove me wrong.

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