Con­gress of the Peo­ple mem­ber Ver­non de Li­ma has writ­ten to the Par­lia­ment ask­ing for Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er to apol­o­gise for claim­ing he at­tend­ed a meet­ing at the home of busi­ness­man George Bell.

Warn­er told Par­lia­ment last week Fri­day that De Li­ma was one of the peo­ple who at­tend­ed the meet­ing which he said was in­tend­ed to desta­bilise the coun­try.But De Li­ma has de­nied at­tend­ing the meet­ing. He wrote to Speak­er Wade Mark on Wednes­day. In the let­ter De Li­ma is al­so deny­ing Warn­er's claim.

COP leader, Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Prakash Ra­mad­har, al­so sent a sup­port­ing let­ter to Mark. De Li­ma is call­ing on Warn­er to apol­o­gise for his claim and al­so wants the min­is­ter to be fired.

Warn­er spoke last week Fri­day dur­ing his con­tri­bu­tion to the de­bate on leg­is­la­tion to amend the De­fence Act.De Li­ma and Bell have de­nied his at­ten­dance at the meet­ing but Warn­er has in­sist­ed he has in­for­ma­tion to sup­port his claim.

Bell said it was to dis­cuss is­sues af­fect­ing cit­i­zens and there was no one by the name of Ver­non de Li­ma in at­ten­dance.Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said on Mon­day if Warn­er was un­able to pro­vide sup­port­ing ev­i­dence he would have to with­draw the state­ment.

De­bate on the bill, which seeks to give sol­diers po­lice pow­ers of ar­rest, will re­sume when the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives meets at Tow­er D, Wa­ter­front Com­plex, Port-of-Spain, at 1.30 pm to­day.