Attorney General Anil Nandlall has advised Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton that President Irfaan Ali has already stated the constitutional basis for his appointment of Clifton Hicken as the acting Police Commissioner and as a result there is no need for him to rehash it.
Nandlall made the position known in a letter sent four days after Norton’s representative wrote to Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira seeking answers from the President on a request for consultations with the Opposition Leader on the proposal for Hicken to act as Police Commissioner.
Teixeira, on June 29, wrote to Norton seeking “meaningful consultation” between him and the President on the appointment of a person to act in the Office of Commissioner of Police pursuant to Article 211 (2) of the Constitution.