The Tribune

POLICE were last night seeking to quiz a local political activist after a threat to shoot National Security State Minister Keith Bell with an AK47 appeared on his Facebook page.

A long message published on Omar Archer Sr’s dedicated page on the internet website Facebook, alleges the government was somehow complicit with the death of Julian “Heads” Collie.

A series of allegations concern the government, the police and crime in a post which has since been deleted but was being ‘shared’ across social media yesterday.

The message starts: “This PLP government has drawn the line with me.”

It goes on to say Collie was “like a brother” and claims Collie’s death and other reported murders can be attributed to an alleged conspiracy involving the government and local gangs.

It concludes with a threat to Keith Bell, Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security: “Those couple bodyguards Bell have and that small gun cannot save him from what is to come. It’s a mad fire ting going on now and he is on top of the list to be executed. I might be deat and gone before it happens but it will happen. From what I understand his face will be shot completely with an AK47 to send a clear and present message.”

Omar Archer is a former Bahamas Democratic Movement parliamentary candidate who switched to the PLP and ran for the party chairmanship in 2008.

In 2008, he told The Tribune he believed he was shot by a hitman who was paid by someone who had made attempts on his life before.

“When I came into the hospital after being shot in my abdomen, the bullet that hit me ruptured my large and small intestine and my stomach.

So the doctors had to take a significant portion of my large intestine out.

They took a small portion of my small intestine out, and they also took out a portion of my stomach.

“The bullet is still lodged near my spine.

“They are too scared to take it out,” he said.

• There are unconfirmed reports that police have made an arrest in connection with this incident.