Man says he is being chastised for exposing KHMH operations

A few days before Christmas, on December 22 , KHMH whistleblower Delroy Herrera was arrested for disseminating information to various media houses. That information is believed to have come from over ten thousand documents detailing various violations of procedure by top notch employees at the hospital. Herrera is a former store clerk at the hospital and it is alleged that Herrera gained unlawful access to the KHMH server because he was not privy to those documents as a store clerk. Police had also confiscated a laptop and desktop computer from his home at the time of the arrest. Now Herrera is trying to get back his computers. Herrera's attorney is Arthur Saldivar.

Arthur Saldivar, Attorney at Law
Well Mr. Herrera as you may have appreciated, was exercising his constitutional right to free speech and doing his duty as a citizen to shed light on and expose wrong doings and corruption that was taking place at the KHMH at the area where medicine and supplies were being purchased.

Saldivar said that he believes his client is being victimized. Saldivar also said that his client had informed members of the United Democratic Party of what was taking place in the KHMH before he blew the whistle publicly.

Arthur Saldivar
A law enforcement apparatus was set upon Mr. Herrera like a pit-bull so to speak, to punish, harass and seek to silence this upstanding citizen who has had no contact with the law in any illegal way before; no reason for the law to go to his home. Not only did the law enforcement people go to Mr. Herrera's home, but they kicked his door down, slammed him upon the refrigerator and subjected him to the indignity of blatant abuse in the presence of his family, his wife and children. This is not what being a citizen in a democratic and free country should be. So certainly the Government of Belize must be chastised and criticized in the strongest possible way and reprimanded by the citizens for this kind of behavior, because if it can be done to Mr. Herrera, it can be done to any one of us as citizens of this country and this is not the kind of behavior that the government of a free nation ought to be operating in.

We are made to understand that Herrera, along with his attorney, will have a press conference soon after the New Year, where they are expected to release more information on the happenings at KHMH.

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