Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is calling on the Prime Minister to state why his government is not working to intercept what is happening in the prisons.
This follows Dr Keith Rowley’s revelation on the TV6 Morning Edition on Thursday, in which he said the criminals who are already locked up are the ones calling the shots and are responsible for the murder and mayhem taking place in the country.
In a statement, Persad-Bissessar said it is terrifying that Rowley, the head of government and Chairman of the National Security can go on national television and tell law-abiding citizens that the ‘gang brains’ are in prison and the crime network is being run by these people who are already behind bars.
She said: “If he knows who the ‘big fish’ are and that they are in the prisons communicating with accomplices on the outside, the questions that arise are: What is being done to tackle this problem? How are these jailed criminals conducting business? What is the status of the scanners and jammers for the prisons? Why are teams of law enforcement not sent into the prisons to search every nook and cranny and seize devices that are being used to call murder hits and organize crime? Have our intelligence services fallen apart, or are they being used only to spy on the opposition? Why is he and his government not working to intercept what is happening in the prisons?”
According to the UNC leader, this government does not have an anti-crime plan and does not know how to fix our country’s problems. “They just let things fester and fester.”
“After taking to the TV6 television platform, even being handled with kid gloves and handed questions on a silver platter, all dictator Rowley could offer the country were the same old excuses for his failures to address crime. He is clearly on his last legs and has run out of anything useful or new to say,” she added.
Persad-Bissessar said Rowley is aware of the deadly crime problem, but instead of fixing it, he chooses to busy himself golfing and comes out only when it’s TV time with his usual mantra of ‘blame Kamla, blame the citizens’.”