ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—The chief of the primary opposition New Nationwide Social gathering (NNP), Emmalin Pierre, has referred to as for an investigation right into a leaked video displaying a parliamentarian scrolling her cell phone final month with the caption claiming she was procuring on a preferred website.
The incident is reported to have occurred throughout the January twenty eighth sitting, and the video disseminated on social media platforms exhibits Kate Lewis-Peters scrolling her cell phone.
Addressing a public assembly on Sunday, Pierre, a member of the Home Committee, mentioned she would formally request to Speaker Leo Cato that an investigation be carried out and the perpetrator banned from attending parliamentary sittings.
“The worst place that such an invasion of privateness may have taken place is within the Parliament of this nation, and so tonight, I need to announce…that this crew NNP will increase this concern, and we is not going to cease till it’s correctly investigated and motion is taken.
“I’m going on to say that the one that is caught responsible have to be banned from returning to the Home of Parliament,” she instructed the assembly within the city of the western parish of St John’s.
“We can not deal with so flippantly the folks’s Home, and so we might be making a name for the Speaker of the Home to do an pressing swift investigation and to supply publicly the findings of this investigation,” she mentioned whereas expressing solidarity with Lewis-Peters.
“Now we have to face in solidarity with ourselves as a result of we don’t know what was taken earlier than,” she added.
The consultant for the Labour Motion within the Senate, Andre Lewis, additionally expressed his concern in regards to the video, saying that he has already knowledgeable the President of the Higher Home that he might be conducting his analysis into the incident.
