Mark now calls for investigation of Lindquist

While Attorney General Glenda Morean said there was “no further stage” for the Bob Lindquist Report, former MP Dr Joe Laquis yesterday called on his party to use the Privileges Committee of Parliament to have UNC MP Ganga Singh expelled for misleading the Parliament. And UNC MP Wade Mark is calling for “somebody needs to investigate Mr Lindquist”.

Mark said from the word go the process was “contaminated and polluted”. He said the Attorney General should not have taken the matter “unto her shoulder”. Conceding that it was the UNC which called for Bob Lindquist to investigate the matter, Mark stated: “When you employ an investigator like Bob Lindquist who is a hired hand of the State, he is being paid by the State, how can this man?.. He doesn’t make the report available to the DPP and the Police, he makes it available to the Attorney General,” he said. “We are saying that Mr Lindquist is singing for his supper and that is why he could say no (evidence of wrongdoing)” said Mark. The UNC MP said if the matter was sent to the DPP , the Police would have gone and interviewed Kansham Kanhai the former CEO and “ all the engineers who were dismissed because of their racial composition and complexion..This report is a waterdown report..They have not interviewed key players”.

Laquis stated that he knew from the word ‘go’ that an untruth could not become true. He said it was a sad day that a member of Parliament should mislead the House and the entire country. “I call on him to do the honourable thing and resign,” he said. Laquis added that if Singh did not resign, there was “no recourse” but for the PNM to make an “automatic request” for him to be referred to the Privileges Committee and for him to be ultimately expelled. Public Utilities Minister said he was “grateful” that it was demonstrated that the actions of the people charged with the responsibility for managing WASA were clean.  “I feel happy about that,” he said, adding that the Government had nothing to hide. He said he was not surprised by the findings. Morean said nothing was raised in the report that have given the Government any cause for concern. She said Govern-ment was not prepared to tolerate corruption from any one of its members or anyone else.  On the cost of the investigation, she said she hadn’t got Linquist’s bill yet.