L.A. Lewis Urges Richard Currie To Let Go Of Jamaican Gun Licence

Self-proclaimed maroon chief L.A Lewis believes that the recent declarations made by the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), Shane Dalling that Richard Currie, Colonel of the Accompong Maroons, is presently in breach of the nation’s Firearms Act, were calculated to embarrass Currie.

“Currie needs his Maroon ID, but him nah waan leggo off the colonial system, you cannot be a Maroon and have a Jamaican gun licence, that is a breach of the Sovereignty Act, and that is why the government can style him about his guns,” former entertainer Horace ‘L.A’ Lewis told DancehallMag.

“Currie still holds on to the Jamaican driving licence, his Jamaican birth paper, but he needs Maroon earth paper. I am urging him o come in for his Maroon documents, him refuse to, that’s why the government can style him,” Lewis said.

Lewis urged Currie to secure proper identification to be truly regarded as a sovereign ruler.

“Currie is not a sovereign until him leggo his Jamaican gun licence, we have our sovereign birth paper, our sovereign arms licence. Our sovereign ID is legal and recognised by the United Nations,” L.A Lewis claimed.

Today, Dalling told the Jamaica Observer that Currie has been found to be in breach of the nation’s Firearms Act with respect to two gun permits which are now out of date.

“Based on my checks, Mr Currie is in breach. His license is not up to date. He has not done the renewal process and as such, the matter has been referred to the police for them to assist,” Dalling told the Jamaica Observer during an FLA press conference Tuesday morning at the AC Hotel in St Andrew.

L.A. Lewis and Currie, the Accompong Maroon Chief, have engaged in a war of words which begun last year when Currie sought to discredit Lewis via Instagram.

“Caveat Emptor: Horace Lewis, aka LA Lewis, is NOT a government official of #Accompong, nor is he recognised via our records as a citizen of Accompong. This individual has no delegation of authority to transact business for the state, nor bestow titles of nobility #sounddiabeng,” he had written.

The animosities began even before that as Lewis had sought to ascribe himself a maroon which angered the former Maroon Chief, Colonel Ferron Williams, who suggested that Lewis could be in for a beating in keeping with local maroon traditions, should he ever again show up in Accompong Town in St Elizabeth.