Couva South MP Rudranath Indarsingh wants public assurance from government that the Commission of Enquiry report into the Paria Fuel diving tragedy will be sent to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Speaking at the Opposition’s media conference on Sunday, Indarsingh asked the Prime Minister not to submit the report to the Attorney General’s officers saying he feared it would be lost or sterilised.
He said: “We ask you to guard this particular report with the highest level of national security.”
Indarsingh stressed that the report should be sent to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions “so that it can be reviewed based on the evidence and findings and if there is merit what we would term criminal prosecution then allow the chips to fall where it may fall.”
He added the Prime Minister is also duty-bound to lay the report in the Parliament.
The MP cited the recent blunder at the AG’s Office that led to a file “disappearing,” allowing the nine men accused of the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder to be awarded $20 million in a civil suit.
“It reappeared by some magic and so on and up till today…we have not been told whether the loopholes had been identified that led to the disappearance of this file and what measures have been instituted to prevent the reoccurrence of files and so on disappearing. We fear too, that if this report from the Commission of Enquiry goes to…the Office of the Attorney General, it may disappear,” he said.
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