‘Krysis’ yet to give police statement

Head of the Islamic Front Umar Abdullah made the confirmation yesterday saying Wakeel has “reservations about it.” “There is no meeting with the police,” Abdullah said. “He has reservations about it and he must be very careful. Yesterday (Saturday) we had a lengthy meeting with members of the so-called Unruly group.” On Friday, National Security Minister Edmund Dillon and several senior police officers walked through several well-known hotspot areas in the crime-ravaged area.

During that tour, Abdullah accompanied Wakeel to meet the officials among them Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Wayne Dick and Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams. While at Crown Trace, Wakeel promised to reveal all he knew about crooked police officers and where the illegal guns are. Days earlier, Wakeel had posted several videos on social media of himself singing about shootings and gang violence.

Yesterday Abdullah said he advised Wakeel to refrain from such actions and the young man agreed.

“I advised him to stop making such statements on Facebook. So, there is an agreement. It is good to bring about that peace. We have a lot of things planned - two programmes are coming soon. You will hear more about it in the days to come.” Abdullah said that either today or tomorrow, a press release would be sent to media houses for coverage of the issue.

“The press conference will be on Friday after juma (Islamic prayers).

We are still deciding a venue.” Unruly ISIS and the Rasta City gangs are warring and police said most of the killings in Enterprise are due to conflicts between the rival gangs.

Police confirmed that investigators are yet to obtain statements from Wakeel.

Efforts to contact National Security Minister Edmund Dillon for comment proved futile as all calls went unanswered.