Ke­jan Haynes & Ryan Ba­choo

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has de­nied claims made by Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine at a spe­cial ple­nary sit­ting of the THA in which Au­gus­tine played video record­ings of what he said was a whistle­blow­er who claimed to be a par­tic­i­pant in the scheme and was ex­pect­ed to be paid for a wit­ness state­ment and a statu­to­ry de­c­la­ra­tion.

Row­ley de­nied any knowl­edge of the whistle­blow­er in a state­ment to the me­dia. He al­so de­nied any knowl­edge of the po­lice of­fi­cer and meet­ing with her.

Be­low are the Prime Min­is­ter's state­ments:

• With re­spect to Mr Ak­il Ab­dul­lah, I do not know any per­son by that name.I have nev­er met with any such per­son. I have nev­er spo­ken to him (Ak­il Ab­dul­lah) in any form or fash­ion. I have nev­er com­mu­ni­cat­ed with him in any way.

• Ad­di­tion­al­ly I cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­ny that I know In­spec­tor Weav­er­Ali. I do not know this of­fi­cer. I have nev­er met her. I have nev­er spo­ken to her. To the best of my knowl­edge I have nev­er been in her pres­ence.

• Fur­ther I cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­ny that I was in any meet­ing with per­sons named as de­scribed by the Chief Sec­re­tary, that is, Of­fi­cer Weaver-Ali, At­tor­ney-at-Law Gilbert Pe­ter­son and An­cil Den­nis.

• I have nev­er been in any meet­ing of any kind with her, alone or in the pres­ence of any oth­er per­son, as pre­sent­ed by the Chief Sec­re­tary to the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

• I state, with­out fear of con­tra­dic­tion, that this pur­port­ed meet­ing where­in I sup­pos­ed­ly di­rect­ed the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice to

take cer­tain ac­tion, nev­er oc­curred. As far as I am con­cerned it is a pure fan­ci­ful fab­ri­ca­tion by per­son/s for their own ne­far­i­ous pur­pose.