Half of the Police Service looking for Anil, says Rowley By Anna Ramdass anna.ramdass@trinidadexpress Story Created: Dec 5, 2014 at 9:35 PM ECT Story Updated: Dec 5, 2014 at 9:35 PM ECT Half of the Police Service is looking for former sport minister Anil Roberts, says Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley. He was speaking during the debate of procurement legislation at the Parliament sitting yesterday. Rowley used the Prime Minister’s own words to criticise her, noting that she said the best assessment of human behaviour is to look at their past behaviour. “Look at the behaviour of this Prime Minister with respect to the Minister of Sport,” said Rowley as he reminded the House that he had brought a motion to raise concern over the billion-dollar contract to Super Industrial Services (SIS) for the Beetham wastewater treatment plant and the Prime Minister authorised Roberts to respond. “The Prime Minister authorised the Minister of Sport to respond...to a matter where the NGC is for the first time leaving its core business to go and invest a billion or more dollars in water and the person in the Parliament who is responding to a challenge from the Opposition is the Minister of Sport with the Prime Minister.... Today half the Police Service looking for the Minister,” said Rowley. He also noted the Prime Minister presided over the appointment of junior technician Reshmi Ramnarine to head the Strategic Security Agency (SSA). Rowley further chided Persad-Bissessar for bringing up allegations that he siphoned materials from the Landate Tobago matter. Rowley said the Integrity Commission by court order conducted an enquiry into the allegations and at the end of the day the Commission was able to report there was no wrongdoing He said yet the Prime Minister comes again for the “umpteenth” time resurrecting the allegations while the Attorney General was wasting millions to pursue the same matter which the Integrity Commission already concluded that there was no wrong. He also refuted allegations by Pointe-a-Pierre MP that he as Minister of Housing gave a contract to the wife of the chairman of the PNM. “I want to make it abundantly clear, Mr Speaker, I had absolutely nothing to do with any award of any contract in the Ministry of Housing,” said Rowley. He said further that the issue of procurement legislation is not new and it has been existing due to the presence of the Central Tenders Board Act. Rowley also categorically stated that after the section 34 fiasco as long as the Opposition has any concerns about any legislation they will not give their support for its passage. trinidadexpress/news/Half-of-the-Police-Service-looking-for-Anil-says-Rowley-284939961.html
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