An injunction, filed in the High Court on Friday, placed a gag on Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner.Expelled ILP councillor Faaiq Mohammed, represented by attorney Nizam Mohammed, has filed an injunction barring his former party leader or his agents from "speaking, circulating, uttering or publishing" any allegations of bribery against Mohammed.The 14-page injunction cited 24 newspaper articles and several press conferences where Warner made similar comments.
"I am concerned that unless restrained by the honourable court, the defendant will completely and totally ruin and destroy my character to the point where I may be forced to relocate in the interest of my personal safety and that of my family," Mohammed stated in the injunction."This type of 'badjohn', gangster behaviour and 'hooliganism' has terrified my family and adversely affected our health and emotional well-being," the injunction states.
Mohammed said Warner's actions through the media and his own voice played on a loudspeaker throughout the Chaguanas district calling Mohammed a "Judas" has brought him into "public scandal, odium and contempt."Mohammed reiterates in the document that he has not accepted any "bribe or monetary gain" for the vote he cast in favour of the United National Council (UNC) for the Chaguanas mayoral vote.
This injunction also noted that Mohammed only learned of his expulsion from the ILP through the media."I was surprised to hear this as I know the ILP has no constitution or rules which provide methodology or procedure for expulsion of members," Mohammed said.Several attempts to reach Warner were unsuccessful.