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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Kamla to file motion against PM for misleading Parliament

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Sharlene Rampersad
1186 days ago
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UNC MPs Rudy Indarsingh and David Lee among supporters during the party’s Joint Parliamentary Arm and National Congress at the Couva South Multipurpose Hall on Saturday.

UNC MPs Rudy Indarsingh and David Lee among supporters during the party’s Joint Parliamentary Arm and National Congress at the Couva South Multipurpose Hall on Saturday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says in the com­ing days she in­tends to file a mo­tion against Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley in Par­lia­ment for "mis­lead­ing" the Par­lia­ment by say­ing the UNC did not act on the 1997 Robert Sab­ga re­port in­to child abuse at homes.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar, speak­ing dur­ing a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) meet­ing in Cou­va on Sat­ur­day, said she would not spend her time de­fend­ing the UNC’s ac­tions when the Robert Sab­ga-led task force un­earthed phys­i­cal and sex­u­al abuse, malfea­sance, ne­glect and wide­spread mis­treat­ment of wards of the State at chil­dren’s homes.

There have been claims that the re­port was buried and no ac­tion tak­en, which the UNC has strong­ly de­nied.

 Last week, the Prime Min­is­ter charged act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Mc Don­ald Ja­cob with find­ing the re­port and tak­ing ac­tion.

"He wants to talk about the re­port, it dis­ap­peared un­der the PNM, and it is on­ly when I came back and the UNC came back in 2010 that we picked up the pack­age of leg­is­la­tion, and we made it hap­pen.

"And this liar, he is king liar him­self, he said he op­er­a­tionalised the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty. Re­al­ly?"

Say­ing it is al­leged there is a pae­dophile ring in the PNM, Per­sad-Bisses­sar added, "As they say, call names…PNM, Pae­dophile Na­tion­al Move­ment.”

Last week, in a me­dia re­port Per­sad-Bisses­sar called on the po­lice to in­ves­ti­gate al­le­ga­tions of a long-stand­ing pae­dophile ring op­er­at­ing with­in the PNM. She al­so asked PM Row­ley to call the names of PNM col­leagues in­volved in the pae­dophile ring al­leged by Sab­ga.

On Sat­ur­day, she again called on the PM to name the mem­bers of the pae­dophile ring.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the coun­try was over­run with crim­i­nals and crime, but the most "hurt­ful" was the abuse of chil­dren.

"Some­body told me a few days ago, lis­ten, you are my friend, I am your friend…If my friend says a bad word, I might say, ok, you are still my friend. If my friend cuffs down Wade Mark, I might say well, maybe not so, but ok, you are still my friend. But when your friend in­ter­feres with a child, we say no! Enough is enough! Nev­er, nev­er, nev­er!" Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.

 She added, "I know cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly no UNC was ever in­volved in any of that abuse on chil­dren, none!”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so chas­tised the Gov­ern­ment, say­ing the promised-pep­per spray leg­is­la­tion and the na­tion­al CCTV cam­era net­work were still nowhere to be seen.

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