Geisha Kow­lessar

Sit­ting un­der a tree in Wood­ford Square, Port-of-Spain, sec­re­tary of Fish­er­man and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) Gary Aboud made a tear­ful plea to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to me­di­ate with the High­way Re-Route Move­ment (HRM), in­sist­ing that its leader Dr Wayne Kublals­ingh will die at any­time.He al­so urged cit­i­zens to come out in their num­bers to the square at 11.30 am to­mor­row to sup­port good gov­er­nance.

Sur­round­ed by a hand­ful of sup­port­ers Aboud, who is re­cov­er­ing from Chik V and open­ly cried, said:"We are is­su­ing an SOS to all cit­i­zens who are in favour of hu­mane gov­er­nance, who are in favour of prime min­is­ters with con­science, who are in favour of in­tegri­ty and good pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion, who be­lieve that the Prime Min­is­ter has the key to the so­lu­tion to save Dr Kublals­ingh's life... all peo­ple against all the bad things in the coun­try come to Wood­ford Square."

Aboud, who re­cent­ly vis­it­ed Kublals­ingh at his home at D'Abadie, said he was sad­dened at the en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist's de­te­ri­o­rat­ed state.He said should Kublals­ingh die that would be a stain on every right think­ing cit­i­zen be­cause Kublals­ingh had lived a "pure life" and nei­ther his in­tegri­ty nor his good­will could be ques­tioned."He has saved this coun­try a colos­sal waste that the last gov­ern­ment would have caused with the threat of build­ing five alu­mini­um smelters and he as saved the Clax­ton Bay fish­er­folk.

"Madam Prime Min­is­ter too many ques­tions are be­ing raised and all of the an­swers are in your lap. As our leader you have the key to the so­lu­tion," Aboud said.He said Kublals­ingh must not be al­lowed to die and his re­quests "may or may not be rea­son­able" but the an­swer is me­di­a­tion."Many re­li­gious and in­de­pen­dent bod­ies are look­ing at this mat­ter and can­not un­der­stand where are you. We ask that you come to meet with him and dis­cuss the so­lu­tion.

"If Dr Kublals­ingh does not make it... his im­pend­ing death must not be per­mit­ted un­der your guid­ed hand." He said no "amount of ad­ver­tise­ments in the news­pa­per" would re­lin­quish Per­sad-Bisses­sar's re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in find­ing a so­lu­tion to this mat­ter.