(Trinidad Express) MINISTER of National Security Jack Warner, who was reported as being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States, says he will not be “crucified” by persons calling for his removal as minister.
There have been repeated calls for Warner to step down as minister or be fired by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar since foreign media reports stated he was being investigated.
Warner spoke with reporters yesterday at Central Division Police Youth Club’s sports and family day at Edinburgh 500 Recreation Ground, Chaguanas.
“I do not think you know of any other politician who for the last three years has been maligned and who has been crucified as I have been. The one objective in mind—to get rid of Jack Warner because there are those who believe that if you get rid of Jack Warner then you get rid of a major chunk or chink in the Government’s armour,” he said.
“At the end of the day, I don’t have to respond to them. Yesterday was the crucifixion. Today is not, and I will continue and I will do what I have to do. I have nothing to be afraid of and I sleep very soundly at night. If they get rid of Jack Warner today, tomorrow they go after somebody else and somebody else the following day. That is their modus operandi. That is what they want. I will not be in anyway at all assailed by what they are trying do in any way,” Warner said.
“Like Mervyn Cordner, like Vernon De Lima, that too shall pass and after that has passed there will be others that they will raise, but I am not fazed, not in the least.”
Warner also spoke about the power outage that kept the country in darkness for several hours two days ago.
“We had this blackout for two nights and the lowest crime rate we ever had were those two nights. The lowest crime rate, in fact. Last night, not a single murder. Night before and last night not one serious crime. It seems as if the blackout had a positive effect. I am saying that, of course, jokingly but the fact is one would have thought that we would have had major crimes over that period, but we had absolutely none.”
He said police patrols were intensified and there was aerial and land surveillance.
Warner said an investigation should be done and preventive measures should be put in place to prevent a similar outage occurring.
“I do not want it to seem as if there is somebody to blame for something there. We are going with an open mind to see where we went wrong and then to correct it as the case may be.”
