Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al has called on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to say if he’s aware of a pur­port­ed 2019 T&T Po­lice Ser­vice Spe­cial Branch in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­port on the al­leged ac­tiv­i­ties of a se­nior Gov­ern­ment mem­ber.

If, as Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil chair­man, Row­ley had such in­for­ma­tion, Lutch­me­di­al wants to know why he ap­proved the per­son to con­test a gen­er­al elec­tion and sub­se­quent­ly ap­point­ed them a min­is­ter.

Lutch­me­di­al brought up the is­sue at last night’s UNC ‘T&T Speaks’ meet­ing in San Fer­nan­do West.

The meet­ing, chaired by UNC front­lin­er Vil­liana Ra­moutars­ingh and al­der­man Col­in Leza­ma, fo­cused on lo­cal gov­ern­ment and win­ning the San Fer­nan­do cor­po­ra­tion.

Ra­moutars­ingh vowed, “In 2022 we’re go­ing to take it!”

Lutch­me­di­al said, “We’re in dif­fi­cult times, made more dif­fi­cult by PNM’s mis­man­age­ment and in­com­pe­tence—crime is out of con­trol. We’ve seen es­ca­la­tion in gun vi­o­lence in San Fer­nan­do ar­eas, South Park, Co­conut Dri­ve, busy High Street, at mid­day. A ris­ing trend—at night dogs bark­ing and when you look out your win­dows, per­sons steal­ing ca­ble.”

Lutch­me­di­al, who said the pur­port­ed Spe­cial Branch re­port had ap­peared in her mail­box, al­leged it was cre­at­ed in 2019 af­ter an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

She said it was sent on Ju­ly 5, 2019 to the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er from the As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er (Spe­cial Branch).

The al­le­ga­tions in­volved two com­pa­nies’ ac­tiv­i­ties and con­tract ‘awards’.

“Who did Spe­cial Branch in­ves­ti­gate? The an­swer’s deeply dis­turb­ing. But what’s more dis­turb­ing is the fact that the sub­ject has on­ly risen to high­er heights, pro­mot­ed in the po­lit­i­cal are­na, af­ter this re­port. Worse—pro­mot­ed by those who claim to be the biggest white-col­lar crime fight­ers,” she al­leged.

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