'I emphasise again that people who participated in the 2000 uprising with criminal intent, as established by the police, will continue to be subject to the full force of the law. The Bill is not intended to provide relief to those who used the coup for their own gain or other criminal intent.' (14 June 2005)

'We cannot bring the people together and concentrate all our energies on developing the country when the agony of 2000 is continuously haunting us.' (27 May 20…

'The sections of the Bill dealing with amnesty were not plucked out of thin air. They have been taken from legislation adopted and successfully used elsewhere.…

'Any Bill is drafted without consulting any party or stakeholders is because it contains what the Government wants to be included in the Bill.' (20 May 2005, e…

'It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,' -words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day com…

The issue which concern all of us as citizens of this country, irrespective of our political beliefs and ethnicity, is this: if we are to forbear all legal pro…