Rowley will file motion to censure AG in Parliament (with CNC3 video)

Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley stated his intention yesterday to file a motion of censure in Parliament against Attorney General Anand Ramlogan in Parliament. He said that to a large crowd at a public meeting of the People’s National Movement at Five Rivers Junction, Arouca, on Wednesday night. Rowley said the motion was being brought against Ramlogan for his alleged role in the proclamation of Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act 2011. That law provided for an accused to be freed if his matter was not heard in court after ten years of the commission of the alleged crime. The law was later repealed following an emergency sitting of the Parliament on September 11. Rowley said the time had come for some people to stand up and put Trinidad and Tobago first. The motion should be debated on October 26. 

 

Rowley said in his presentation of the motion he “will read into the records of the Parliament every detail of the timelines of what they have done for posterity. “And when I am through with that I will ask them all to stand up in front of you live on television and vote for or against an Attorney General,” he added. He said the Opposition also would file a similar motion against Ramlogan in the Senate. Rowley said if he was still in office after that, a motion of censure would be filed for debate in the Tobago House of Assembly. Rowley also said he would meet  this afternoon with officials of the Movement for Social Justice, the Joint Trade Union Centre and other civic organisations to formulate a plan of action to save T&T. He said he had called a special meeting of the PNM’s General Council on Sunday morning to outline his plan of action. Rowley criticised media ads by the PP which claimed he had no moral authority to criticise the Government. Rowley dismissed that claim. 

 

He said the PP was using millions of taxpayers’ dollars to pay for ads criticising former executive chairman of state-owned Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott). Rowley said Calder Hart pales into insignificance when compared to the Section 34 fiasco caused by the PP Cabinet. His three-day ultimatum to Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar to fire Ramlogan went unheeded. Meanwhile, Diego Martin North East MP Colm Imbert, who also spoke at the meeting, said Ramlogan was not speaking the truth when he said he did not have ministerial responsibility of criminal legislation. Imbert said since July last year, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar had reassigned criminal legislation to the Ministry of the Attorney General. He renewed his call for the police to investigate sacked Justice Minister herbert Volney about the Section 34 proclamation issue.