Pakistan has told the United Kingdom that Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, was "raised, groomed and spoilt in Britain." The outraged response has been almost universal. Here is the problem. It is true, and I can prove it. For eighteen years, Oldham Council employed this man as a welfare rights officer, seconded to a community centre, sitting across the desk from vulnerable families and their children. He sat on the board of the Citizens Advice Bureau. He carried a Labour Party card. And he was protected. The national inquiry now has the power to find out who and why. Every official, every decision, every name. Whether it does is dependent on the pressure we apply. Unless you believe a Labour Party Baroness will do it willingly. I understand why people feel it. But eight years ago I was told there was no cover-up and no story worth telling, by the people who ran the council, the police and the party that held both. Three council leaders are gone. Every case they brought against me was defeated in the courts, and in May the High Court ruled against GMP itself. A national inquiry now exists because ordinary people refused to accept the official account, and they are the ones still running from the truth. Burnham in Number 10 raises the stakes. For years he held up his assurance reviews as proof there was nothing to find. While those reviews were telling you nothing happened, Operation Hexagon was running, a joint operation between GMP and Oldham Council that came after the people asking questions instead of the men raping children. Every officer involved answered, through the chain of command, to the Mayor who held police and crime powers in his own hands. The statutory inquiry can now compel his evidence under oath, and the reviews, and Hexagon, become part of what he has to answer for. The only way he escapes is if we stop. My name is Raja Miah. I led the campaign that exposed the Pakistani Rape Gang cover up in my hometown of Oldham. The people of my town helped force the national inquiry. As well as Pakistani gangsters and Islamists, we fought against the man that is now Prime Minister to expose the truth. This fight now runs all the way to Downing Street. - Raja Miah MBE