Fuad: Kidnapping based on race

GUARDIAN Angels founder, Dr Fuad Khan, has revealed that kidnappers were targetting potential victims based on race and their positions in society.

He urged UNC supporters to unite against PNM-supported criminal gangs who were wreaking havoc in the country. He was addressing a UNC cottage meeting at the Woodland Hindu School, Oropouche, on Thursday evening. Khan said the abduction of the three children in the San Juan/Barataria constituency revealed the ‘modus operandi’ of the kidnappers. “Nobody can tell me that is not happening to anybody who is not a UNC person,” he said. Khan added: “People are targetted because of their race and because of their position in life.”

The San Juan/ Barataria MP also called for unity among supporters saying the “biggest problem” facing a UNC revival was the in-fighting among members. He said while supporters were blaming the leadership for the party’s election loss, the PNM was “flying straight through the loopholes and destroying us”. “The biggest problem is ourselves,” he said, adding no single MP could satisfy the expectations of every person within their respectative constituencies.

The former Junior Health Minister also slammed Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s meeting with alleged “community leaders” saying the “PNM is linking with criminals to suppress us.” He said the PNM administration had embarked on a massive campaign of discrimination against UNC supporters through hiring practices within the protective services and community improvement projects such as CEPEP and URP. “How many of your sons or daughters have ever applied to the Police Service and got in?” he asked. Khan said the Government was continuing an Eric Williams policy of ensuring almost 90 percent of the protective services were manned by PNM supporters. And questioned why the Manning adminstration was not implementing the Equal Opportunities Act, he said if an uprising should ever occur over the Caroni issue, “they will send the PNM police to shoot us.” The outspoken MP also knocked Government’s housing development scheme saying the marginal constituencies were being targetted to influence future voting patterns.