The TTPS Firearms Users’ Li­cence au­dit re­port should be quashed and all probe re­ports on FULs are in­valid if peo­ple weren’t giv­en a chance to de­fend them­selves, says UNC MP Roodal Mooni­lal.

Mooni­lal in­di­cat­ed this at a me­dia brief­ing at the Op­po­si­tion’s Port-of-Spain of­fice yes­ter­day.

On the FUL re­port, Mooni­lal said Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has now “col­lapsed” with the re­port and “backed down” from lay­ing the ex­ec­u­tive sum­ma­ry in Par­lia­ment.

Mooni­lal echoed state­ments by for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith that the re­port can’t be used with­out giv­ing peo­ple a right to de­fend their names.

He al­so claimed Row­ley had no right or stand­ing to es­tab­lish an in­ves­ti­ga­to­ry body on the is­sue, since the TTPS’ Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau or Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty han­dle such mat­ters. He felt the Stan­ley John FUL re­port is al­so in­valid. Mooni­lal main­tained the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al should now say the FUL au­dit re­port would be quashed.

Mooni­lal al­so ques­tioned a re­port that the chair­man of the Paria Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to deaths of the four LM­CS divers had spo­ken of the slow pro­vi­sion of ba­sic ser­vices and In­ter­net, pa­per and scan­ners weren’t made avail­able.

He felt if the in­quiry was prop­er­ly done quick­ly, they may be able to do some work in un­earthing some of the is­sues in the in­ci­dent.

“(But) you could al­lo­cate $100 mil­lion to es­tab­lish a road re­pair com­pa­ny but have no pens, pa­per, for the CoE on the trag­ic deaths of these divers and we’re al­ready in Sep­tem­ber,” he said.

Mooni­lal said divers’ fam­i­lies should have le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion and there was no word ei­ther on fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance for fam­i­lies. “Sure­ly, Gov­ern­ment must re­spond to this tragedy,” he said of the Feb­ru­ary in­ci­dent.

Mooni­lal al­so queried how “prop­er “it was for Row­ley and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to go to meet­ings with en­er­gy com­pa­nies, al­leg­ing multi­na­tion­als are “find­ing it un­com­fort­able to meet two politi­cians on con­tracts and pric­ing.”

Re­it­er­at­ing con­cerns on the 2018 Cab­i­net note where a non-dis­clo­sure agree­ment was sought to have a list of pub­lic and pri­vate en­ti­ties give the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agen­cies da­ta, Mooni­lal said lawyers will have to query this and all the en­ti­ties have a du­ty to in­form their clients of the sit­u­a­tion—and in the case of TTEC and WASA, to in­form the pub­lic.

He queried why the Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) was the on­ly busi­ness group list­ed, what da­ta could be need­ed from DO­MA and why. He called on DO­MA head Gre­go­ry Aboud to say if he dis­cussed it with DO­MA mem­bers and called on the Chief Jus­tice to say if he signed the agree­ment and what da­ta the ju­di­cia­ry would pro­vide. Mooni­lal said there was no need for the new Sec­ondary Roads Com­pa­ny Ltd to pave roads since Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment can do paving once re­sourced. Al­leg­ing it was a “cor­rup­tion el­e­ment” for “friends, fi­nanciers, fam­i­ly,” Mooni­lal said the new com­pa­ny will be head­ed by Her­bert George, who heads Ned­co, “which al­ready presided over the col­lapse of the Mos­qui­to Creek high­way seg­ment...”

MP Ani­ta Haynes, crit­i­cal of re­cent Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion an­nounce­ments, sought in­for­ma­tion on how many schools need re­pairs, how many were com­plet­ed, in­com­plete and when they will be done, as well as whether re­opened schools were fit for pur­pose.