Platform speakers trained their guns on National Security Minister Jack Warner at a Movement for Social Justice public meeting at the Preysal High School yesterday.Delivering the feature address at the event, MSJ leader David Abdulah said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was now left with no option but to remove Warner, noting that T&T now faces a crisis every Monday morning.
He said the report presented by Barbadian Sir David Simmons to Concacaf last week holds merit, noting that Simmons is level-headed, eminent and a perceptive individual who did not try to water down the report on Warner."They were very explicit...They said Warner committed fraud against Concacaf and Fifa," Abdulah said.
Noting that the Prime Minister still cannot come to the realisation that Warner should have never been appointed as the Minister of National Security, he said the people can have a say if Warner is to go."The power of citizens can always trump those in office," he said."One Jack got hung in Tobago in January. We have a Jack that is bare, bare, bare, all the exposes...the queen can't save that Jack."
Abdulah said the time has come to walk the talk. He said when the MSJ pulled out of the PP Government they asked the Congress of the People (COP) to come along, but Prakash Ramadhar decided to take the fight from inside PP. He said had the COP split then, they would have created a third political force in T&T.He said the PNM was also not capable of running T&T, since the party was responsible for the history of mismanagement in the country.
"The solution cannot be the PNM," he said.During his address, COP member Vernon De Lima called for the party to pull out of the PP government immediately."It's time to say goodbye," De Lima told the audience.He also had his say on Warner."We have a Minister of National Security who is himself the subject of international scrutiny and who has the blatant admiration, endorsement and protection of almost very member of Cabinet on the pretext that he is hard working and popular in Chaguanas," he said.
"A man who has no compunction about using the cloak of Parliamentary privilege with the approval of those in authority to attack citizens of this country unfairly."De Lima said he was unhappy with the way T&T was being governed and the politicians he had campaigned for."I came to realise that the overwhelming majority of persons who offer themselves for political life in our country are there to eat a food," he said.Also speaking were Wendy Lee Yeun and Indera Sagewan-Alli.