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What Is The Untold Story? Ras Tacuma I'Akobi Maloney Needs To Rest In Peace

A call for Justice, A call for Truth, A call for Change by Enricco Bohne (www.barbadosadvocate.com) This was the plea yesterday at the I’Akobi Youth Resource Centre in Tweedside Road as the Justice Committee formed to promote, protect and defend the late Ras Tacuma I’Akobi Maloney’s case, met with various media houses to publicise the…

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A call for Justice, A call for Truth, A call for Change

by Enricco Bohne (www.barbadosadvocate.com)

This was the plea yesterday at the I’Akobi Youth Resource Centre in Tweedside Road as the Justice Committee formed to promote, protect and defend the late Ras Tacuma I’Akobi Maloney’s case, met with various media houses to publicise the status of Maloney’s case.

Tacuma, whose demise at Landlock, St. Lucy on June 17th was met with much controversy, was represented by Committee members KudosSage I (Secretary of the Justice Committee), Brother Heru (Director of I’Akobi Youth Resource Centre and member of the Justice Committee) as well as Ras Lumumba (Priest of Church of Haile Selassie I), and Tacuma’s brother Mandela Maloney.  Also present was the moter of I’Akobi and other Rastafari Elders.

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I’Akobi side hit at Cop Probe

Source: icarbarbados

MERE DAYS before the Coroner’s inquest into the death of former Barbados Exhibition winner I’Akobi Maloney , the Justice Committee has upped the ante in its fight to get an independent investigation. Clearly stating it was not questioning the office of the Coroner, members of the committee said they specifically believed the information that would be analysed during the November 10 inquest should come from an independent body outside of the Royal Barbados Police Force.

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Call for Independent Investigation

November 7th, 2008
by Peter Thorne (www.cbc.bb)

Secretary of the Justice Committee, Ras KudosSage I, called for an independent investigation to be conducted into the death of former Barbados Exhibition winner and Engineer, I’Akobi Maloney. He lauded the late Rastafarian as a man of exemplary character and moral standing. He says the Committee will resist any attempt to vilify Maloney’s character and his adherence to standards of excellence.

He made the call at a news conference at the I’Akobi Youth Resource Centre at Carrington Village in St. Michael.

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274 responses to “What Is The Untold Story? Ras Tacuma I'Akobi Maloney Needs To Rest In Peace”

  1. Juris Avatar
    Juris

    I, too, think that the Coroner erred on this one. It is true that she does not have to deal only with admissible evidence and that her role is investigative rather than judicial, but …a rumour from an unidentified individual?

  2. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Juris
    Did the coroner not have the option to hear the witnesses in chambers so she could make a judgement about the rumour. She could then decide if the matter was worth follow-up or -as was this one , not.

    I am not sure that I have a problem with her exploring possible leads, but surely not doing preliminary review in public.

  3. JC Avatar
    JC

    aah Bush tea boy you said t why in he public’s view! In te end it was a waste of time Stupse! Isn’t this not slander! Come on lets get real here, it was WRONG! No excuses!

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Who guards the guard?

    Who is the Coroner answerable to regarding decisions taken?

  5. G unit Avatar
    G unit

    This enquiry is becomiong more weird by the minute. The homo connection is a shocker. The coroner called on people to stop sprinkling dust around the court house . Who is doing that? What a potent mix of obeah, homo, rasta, dope, cops, cement, cliff meditation, back problems, uwi, iration et al. What next?

  6. Negroman Avatar
    Negroman

    I do not know.Can the deceased mother sued the state for maligning the name & Character of her disease son?
    This is a national disgrace.A respected Coroner bringing two men to testify because of rumours she heard.
    Only in Barbados.
    The Coroner should be charged.
    My rasta brothers & sisters mobilse yourselves again and demand that idiot Coroner Faith-Marshall-Harris be remove from conducting anymore investigations into the young man’s death.She has a Kangaroo Court.

  7. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    Bush Tea
    Im an idealist.
    I always thought I could get ahead with out ripping off people. I have never overcharged my patients, and often I didnt get even what I charged. But I always had more than I needed.

    Divorce and then a few bad investments destroyed me. I know that we can do better. Doctors make a living by several means beside seeing the sick.

    Being good to patients has long lasting results. There is a lady that I dont think that I did so much for- except to see her dowstairs in my little office early one morning and sent her to hospital some 25 years ago. She is still bringing ground provisions etc to my parents home. She has paid me how many times over.

  8. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    sorry put that post the wrong place

  9. me Avatar
    me

    No comment!….

  10. JC Avatar
    JC

    aah me have something to say! This is slander! this is unfair! What was this woman thinking I think the Rastafarian community should start to protest!

    It seems that when we think Barbadians who make serious decisions within this country are doing the right things they go and disappoint us! Stupsejust now you gon hear he was living with the fish in the sea that he why he jumped STUPID LOT!

  11. General Lee Avatar
    General Lee

    Do Rastafari really expect justice in Babylon’s courts?

  12. Technician Avatar
    Technician

    http://icarbarbados.org/tacuma/2009/04/cops-had-no-reason-to-harass-him/

    Does anyone believe this bullshit?!?!?

    The Police get a call stating there is a boat in the sea just below the cliff and a Rastaman is on the cliff looking out to the sea…..duh? Police turn up….please give me a f@#*ing break….do they really think we believe that the popo said, ‘hi I’akobi…you must be the guy with the Barbados Exhibition,…you know… the Chemical Engineer from the cement plant……you are so nice and cool sir…what are you doing out here?…chilling?…you are cool man.’

    Bullshit!!!

    Anyone with half a brain or that knows how our ‘force’ operates, will see this for what it really is….a damn cover up!!

    The popo didnt know the paro they took to the canefield and used as target practice was the son of a big up.

    They didnt know that the youngster they beat up after cricket was a national surfer.

    Their report came in 13 days later, identical to the grammatical errors, and the excuse is that they were traumatized…..WTF!!

    Isn’t trauma part of their job?!?

    This reminds me of a guy at primary school who copied in a test and copied the other guys name and all.

    If this doesn’t highlight the deception and lies in our Police force, not to mention the blatant attempts at cover-up, then I dont know what ever will.

    This is more than a tragedy…..it is a damn shame and disgrace!!

  13. Avatar
    Anonymous

    What shocked me the most about all of this is the homo guy who testified that akobi was having a homosexual relationship with the guy’s bulla friend.

    Wuh!

    Can’t figure out all this crazy stuff dread.

  14. Technician Avatar
    Technician

    It is always easy to say things about people when they cant be there to defend themselves.
    This is not about his lifestyle, this is about the Police acting suspiciously in an unnatural death circumstance. All these distractions are really just to cloud the real issue .

  15. Avatar
    Anonymous

    But what if he was depressed,or ashamed of the homosexual relationship and wanted to kill himself?

    The police story strange and real suspicious, and yet I can’t see why they would prefer to push him off a cliff rather than bring him in alive and lock him up.

    Really strange!

  16. concerned Avatar
    concerned

    I agree with the comment that mother should seek advice as to if there can be a law suit for disgracing the name of I Akobi near anything like sodomy and if it can be pursue it because it it obvious a silly excuse and so obvious made up to slaughter the character of this young man. I also want you all concerned to read my reveation on the other blog Barbados Underground which I posted today and bring a closure to the sense behind this all. It is only fair for those who struggle in feeling the disgust of this to be unaware of the LAW OF MAAT and how it relates to the truth the whole truth that we will make a big mistake trying to delete the message in my revelation.
    makialaiyoka ashanti iyahdutuI

  17. Dark Knight Avatar
    Dark Knight

    The Attorney General of Barbados recently described the Public Service Act as a “horrible Injustice.” (see page Sun on Saturday, April 25, 2009)

    I do not think that Attorney Andrew Pilgrim; the familiy of I’Akobi Maloney and the Rastafarian Community – agree that that is what the real “horrible injustice,” in Barbados is!!!

    Accordingly therefore, Mr. Stuart – you are wrong!!!

  18. Mandela Avatar
    Mandela

    The question of how I’Akobi met his death has still been left unanswered after approximately 10 months of deliberations both inside and out of court. Although the coroner had dismissed the idea of I’Akobi going to the cliff with the intention of taking his own life, the verdict of misadventure is still debatable. In her context it was defined as the act of running from the police which inadvertently resulted in his death. Our family vehemently refutes the coroner’s claim in this regard; as the act of running towards what the police perceived to be a 60 ft. drop head first with hands outstretched in this ‘mad’ dash for freedom quintessentially describes the act of suicide. Although the coroner removed the police’s postulations of why he had taken his life that being (depression, homosexuality, madness and drug association), she inadvertently or intentionally accepted the single report submitted by Headley and Walkes as the irrevocable truth. How she arrived at this ‘reality’ still remains a mystery as she had not too long questioned the likeness of both officers’ statements (from the order of sentences to adjectives).
    We are now firmly of the belief that the police are an autonomous body in Barbados and subsequently we must now call ourselves a judicial apostates as it relates to any interaction between this body and the general public. This was heightened by the coroner’s dismissal of the event relayed to us (face to face) by both Dottin and Reece (the officers who informed us of a fatal accident where they had personally witnessed I’Akobi ‘iffing’ i.e. motioning as though he was prepared to leap over the edge of the cliff). The rationale for this decision she claimed to be miscommunication. This too was her explanation for not taking into account, the information (the leading of a squad i.e. more than one person as well as the sketchy details) relayed to us at the Holetown police station by Seargent Headley. What is left to be surmised is that the police are free to tell the families of victims whatever they feel without being held accountable for their utterances.
    Our family rejects the timeline fabricated/procured by the police and subsequently accepted by the coroner. There were residents who as early as 4:30 saw a congregation of police assembled at the cliff whilst the body was in the water, approximately one hour before the policemen were alleged to have arrived at the scene. As with autonomy the police are also the official timekeepers and their standard is universally accepted as gospel. The coroner’s claim that the ‘5 minute window’ did not present a large enough divide for such an occurrence, especially since the incident was in an open area, does not take into consideration events of brutality known to have occurred in Barbados. The beating of the white and black patrons at the Kensington Oval provides a suitable enough analogy, where the police manhandled these patrons in the view of a cameraman and other eye witnesses. Additionally, as it takes mere seconds for a body to land at the foot of a cliff, ‘5 minutes’ provides an ample enough window for this “fatal accident”.
    Ultimately, she failed miserably in her role which was to allay the concerns of our family and the public. There still remains much misinformation disseminated by the police which she would like to have our family believe was a result of miscommunication. There remains the unexplored domain which she was reluctant to deduce. That being that as from as early as June the 18th when our family had talked to Sergeant Headley there was no consensus as to how he had died, Harvey’s subsequent involvement brought about solidity of the scenario (there were only two people who interacted with him and no more). This answers puzzling question of why the nine other officers who were at the scene could not validate these two policemen’s account. They were never intended to be material witnesses and to give them a significant role of witnessing the entire event especially after Harvey had completed his investigation would be succinctly dubious.
    As Khalid Muhammad said whoever controls the diameter of our learning controls the circumference of our ability. The police provided this diameter with their fabricated report subsequently the coroner’s ability was then controlled and limited to their facts. It is therefore likened to the adage that a great house will sink in sand. There must be a more sturdy impartial foundation to the proceedings of the coroner’s court if it is seeking to be a truly independent entity.

  19. JC Avatar
    JC

    Please tell your mom that I remember her in my prayers all the time!

    JAH AINT SLEEPING!

    DONT GIVE UP THE FIGHT!

  20. David Avatar
    David

    As a commenter posted yesterday the fact that L’Akobi died while in Police custody would have triggered a civil suit misadventure or not.

  21. ROK Avatar
    ROK

    Can this decision be challenged in a higher court?

    If you say that she failed to take vital evidence into consideration or allowed evidence to overly influence her decision or judgment, in the face of obvious fabrication, this seems to be a good case for review; or appeal.

    I think we need to find ways of getting at justice. Our lawyers are too embedded in a culture of doing things and in a lot of ways their hands are tied because of the said culture. We as citizens must stand up and get up and get our justice.

    I have first hand experience of winning where all lawyers were saying it can’t be done. I did it myself. Anybody can too. There is no mystery about the law. Don’t mind the legal fraternity; you only have to know your first principles and argue your case against the balance of probabilities.

    The evidence is overwhelming; what is the probability that I’Akobi jumped? Well all the evidence presented seem to establish that he had no reason to jump; the only people saying so were the Police who had the same statement.

    If this is so, then what is the probability that the Police pushed him? If you wanted to add a third probability, it would be that the land slipped; so if this happened why was no evidence presented to suggest this?

    So after such examination, what would be the conclusion? If this conclusion is correct, what would make the Coroner think otherwise?

    Put some other facts together. They had an encounter with an innocent man for what? Half an hour? Police had no charges against him, so why spend half an hour with a man who, for all intents and purposes went to “chill”? There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.

    Then ask yourself why an innocent man would run from the police? He was being harassed is an obvious answer. If he was being harassed, then the Police was responsible because they would have had to be acting not only unprofessionally but unlawfully.

    Don’t mind what the lawyers are saying, seek your own justice and one of them will come along; don’t worry. The culture has their hands tied and only your actions will untie them.

  22. concerned Avatar
    concerned

    We can go from one thing to the other on and on and on forever about how what where and when but if we continue to bury our heads in the sand about why ??? it means we continue to chop at the branches instead of getting to the root and they will grow back again and again , therefore much learning will not respect the divine simple laws of MAAT, and not absorb the lesson to be learnt from such a harsh judgement so that no other of us do not make the same mistake ever again to cause so many so much pain.
    The police was only the instrument of this rebound.
    HEIGHTS
    ashanti

  23. concerned Avatar
    concerned

    when the father sent Jerimiah the prophet to warn the people they put him in the dungeon
    ashanti

  24. warrior-princess Avatar
    warrior-princess

    i met I’Akobi at u.w.i. (trinidad) where we were both students. quite soft- spoken, kind-hearted, polite and humble was this young man. we were in different faculties but often met at our fav. eating spot. i remember most his concern for my sons being victimized for having locks as he himself was victimized by teachers at elementary level. he told me that at one time his teacher whispered in his ear to cut that sh*t off his hair…he was no older than ten. thank God that my sons’ teachers are far more educated than that and i should also add that my “rasta” sons are at the top of their class with percentages no lower than 90. it was quite disheartening reading some of the comments posted here. i pray that God open the eyes of those that have theirs shut and let us not lose track of what is really going on. for the Maloney family i feel your pain, have no fear our God is real and justice would be served. Selah!

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