Port of Spain West MP Nileung Hypolite has started seeking legal assistance for detained footballer Keon Quow following futile efforts to get assistance from Government on the issue. Hypolite confirmed the situation yesterday. He said Quow was a promising footballer and had just gotten contracts with a prominent football club and had also played for police teams. Hypolite said Quow was detained by police in search and seizure exercises at Beetham Gardens just over a week ago.
Quow was among two others detained from one household. The other two detainees are his cousins. Hypolite said he had made an appeal on the issue to Sports Minister Anil Roberts in last weekend's debate on the state of emergency. Hypolite said: "I appealed for the Sports Minister to intervene with the National Security Minister John Sandy to see if they can look into this since Quow is a young man with a lot of promise and a lot of talent. He does not smoke or drink."
"But Sports Minister Roberts laughed it off and said nothing, so I am trying on my own to seek legal assistance to try and help in some way," Hypolite added. Hypolite who noted that President George Maxwell Richards proceeded on vacation, questioned whether Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar would be leaving T&T as initially planned to attend the United Nations' General Assembly on September 19 - 24. Earlier this year Goverment had stated that the UN General Assembly was among the PM's engagements for the latter part of the year.