I WILL TELL ALL

With a phalanx of armed police and soldiers nearby, Dillon stood next to Abdul Wakeel aka “Krysis” in Crown Trace and demanded to know if he (Wakeel) was responsible for a spate of videos posted online, which according to Dillon, “Had the entire country uneasy.” When Wakeel at first did not answer, Dillon repeated his question until the former admitted he was in those videos.

The tour yesterday, which saw Dillon being accompanied by Chief of Defence Staff Rodney Smart, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Wayne Dick, Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams and a contingent of police and soldiers was in response to a particularly bloody week which saw four murders being committed in Enterprise.

It also came after Dillon told the nation that force would be met with force as he announced the construction of a police station in Enterprise.

Hitting the authorities for not looking at his “Other videos” in which he gave the names of crooked police officers in the pay of criminals, Wakeel later told Minister Dillon and DCP Dick he would be willing to tell the authorities all he knew about who the crooked police officers are and where the illegal guns are.

Dillon and his team walked through several well-known ‘hotspot’ areas in Enterprise greeting and meeting with residents.

The team was then led to a house in which, they were told, a member of the Unruly ISIS resides.

Wakeel came out to meet with Dillon, accompanied by head of the Islamic Front Umar Abdullah.

Wakeel told Dillon he wanted to meet with him to reveal the names of police involved in corruption with drug dealers in Enterprise.

Throughout the conversation, Wakeel referred to DCP Dick as “de boss”, which did not go down well with the senior policeman.

“The problem is, de boss, people here saying we are the ones to be blamed in Crown Trace, but we are not the ones who bringing in all the drugs and who paying the police and have the guns,” Wakeel said. In videos posted online, a man claiming to be from the Unruly ISIS threatened bloodshed and mayhem and also boasted that ISIS fears no one.

The minister confronted Wakeel, who admitted to being featured on the video.

“You are to be blamed sir, what you did on that video, you sent a sense of unease so don’t blame any circumstances, you made a choice to air that video and speak those words,” Dillon chided Wakeel.

As Dillon spoke, Wakeel interjected.

“Yes I did the video and that was in 2015 and they are bringing it back up because I am now speaking out against corruption and those involved in it.” Wakeel said he has subsequently aired another video apologising for his behaviour in the first video. Wakeel told Dillon the spate of murders in Enterprise did not happen overnight. “For every action there is a reaction and this problem did not start just so. People did not wake up one morning and pick up a gun and kill someone in Bhagaloo (Trace).

“The problem is not the violence, it’s something that led to the violence and you cannot blame me and say what happened here is my fault,” Wakeel said. Dillon told Wakeel that he was prepared to meet with him behind closed doors to discuss further what he (Wakeel) knows.

DCP Dick told Wakeel that he is prepared to meet with him immediately.

As Wakeel paused, Dick told him he appeared not to be quite ready and assured that whenever he (Wakeel) is ready and confident to talk, he should come to the police post at Lion’s gate in Enterprise and police would meet with him there. Prior to the walkabout, Dillon told reporters he believes that within the next three months the Enterprise Police Station would be constructed.

Also on the tour were Chaguanas Mayor Gopaul Boodan and Chaguanas East MP Fazal Karim.