Minister Robeson Benn knows nothing
July 11, 2025
By Leroy Smith
Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn has declared that he is ignorant of the facts surrounding the handing over of Guyanese Businessman Raymond David to Suriname law enforcement officers by ranks of the Guyana Police Force.
David from a jail cell in Suriname pleaded for justice from Guyana’s President and Vice President, as he claims was kidnapped by police officers, handed over to Suriname Officers without the necessary procedures being followed, and that he considered the act abduction.
“I am here illegally in someone else’s country, never been convicted of any crime, never did anything. I was just wanted for questioning, and it has nothing to do with murder,” David, in his video from the jail cell, made clear.
On Friday morning, Guyana’s Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, was asked to comment on the matter. “I have not been briefed, so I would not venture to say anything at this point,” Minister Benn told the media.
Pressed on if he sought clarification from the Guyana Police Force on the matter, he maintained that he was not briefed on the matter, and when he becomes aware, he may venture or have the police force itself speak on the matter
Raymond David said on June 18, he was at his business place, Sweet Elegancy restaurant,t when four police officers came up to him and told him he was wanted for questioning. They, after searching his home and business place, then belatedly told him that he was wanted in connection with a murder in Suriname.
This is after he was taken to the Brickdam Police Station and placed into custody. He said that after that, he was escorted by four policemen who indicated that they were taking him to the border to have him handed over to the police in Suriname.
Raymond David said police officers accused him of being a national of Suriname, and that the Guyana Passport he held was a bogus one.
According to David, when he arrived at Skeldon, he was not processed by the Immigration Rank as an outgoing traveller. Instead, he was placed into a small boat with men who received him, took him into Suriname, and escorted him to jail, where he now sits.
The businessman related that throughout his ordeal, the Guyanese police officers were taking instructions on the phone from a man who he, David, says, goes by the name of ‘Singh’.
