PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has urged the media in Trinidad and Tobago towards being “chained up …to jot down misinformation” as he denied studies that former staff of the Strategic Providers Company (SSA) had been submitting lawsuits.
On Monday, the Ministry of Nationwide Safety denied studies that a number of former SSA staff had been rehired, saying the operations of the company stay below “lively police investigation.
“The SSA has rehired and never terminated a former worker. The rationale for establishing the unapproved TRT (Tactical Response Group) and its operations throughout its existence are the topic of quick and lively Police investigation,” the ministry added.
Talking on the weekly post-Cupboard information convention on Thursday, Prime Minister Rowley informed reporters that the media shouldn’t enable itself to be duped into reporting misinformation on the state of affairs involving the SSA.
“You’ve any person who will not be part of the company working a political get together with himself and two different pals telling you what is going on within the SSA, and also you simply run and publish that simply in order a reality.
“And, in fact, having put that there, you then analyze that the federal government doesn’t know what it’s doing and is afraid of a lawsuit, so the federal government employed them again, all since you need to make the federal government look unhealthy,” Rowley mentioned in an obvious reference to Gary Griffith, the previous police commissioner of the political chief of an opposition get together right here.
“I may let you know that in no nation, none…when you (the federal government) misplaced confidence in folks in nationwide safety positions, you place them (again) there knowingly to run nationwide safety,” Rowley mentioned, including, “So for any person to be telling you that we fired them final week and we employed them this week, that’s their story; that’s not the federal government story.
“There are some folks with cocoa and a few who’re attempting to tailor the nationwide narrative to provide the impression that what the federal government is saying or doing is both inconsistent or simply plain silly…However that will not lead the federal government astray. The police will do their investigations, and their findings will decide what occurred,” the prime minister mentioned.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Rowley mentioned that an audit of the SSA discovered that it had adopted an “unapproved organizational design and construction and staffing” with out the required data of the competent authorities.
The federal government confirmed Main Roger Greatest’s elimination as SSA director in March. It changed him with Ambassador Brigadier Anthony Phillips-Spencer, who had been recalled from Washington and served because the nation’s ambassador to america.
Main Greatest is amongst simply over a dozen folks fired from the SSA because the authorities introduced that one thing amiss was occurring on the company. The self-proclaimed spy Pastor Ian Brown, who’s below police investigation, was fired as a Particular Reserve Police officer on March 19.
In a press release made in Parliament, Rowley mentioned that the SSA was established in 1995 to information the formulation and implementation of nationwide insurance policies on illicit trafficking of harmful medicine and associated legal actions.
However he informed legislators that an intensive inner evaluate and audit of the SSA have been ongoing since March 4 this yr. It had been found that the “unapproved group construction and staffing “ had been undertaken with out the required permission of both the Cupboard, the Nationwide Safety Council, or the Minister of Nationwide Safety.
Rowley informed reporters on Thursday that the police investigations are persevering with and dismissed statements being made within the public area that “no one ain’t get locked up.
“When do you get locked up on this nation? Proof is gathered, collated, and offered…to the courts. So, allow us to not get carried away by folks with agendas. These are grave issues, and a few of them are fairly harmful.
“The federal government will shield the general public curiosity by doing what must be accomplished. So that you, within the media, don’t let folks chain you as much as write misinformation. It’s going to assist if, once they come to you with these issues, you get to the supply and make sure it,” Rowley informed reporters.
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