Rowley hits back at Devant

PM Dr Keith Rowley. PHOTO SUREASH CHOLAI
PM Dr Keith Rowley. PHOTO SUREASH CHOLAI

THE Prime Minister, yesterday, posted on Facebook a recording of a threatening phone-call made to him. He said this was facilitated by the sharing of his private cell-phone number by activist Devant Maharaj, but the latter denied that he had any threatening intent to the PM, and said the woman caller was suffering deep anguish.

The woman’s voice said, “When you hear I kill all these people, I don’t want to go in the mad house. Make a proper f***** place for me in the jail house. Because I have nothing wrong to make me crazy. You hear what I’m telling you?”

Dr Rowley’s post went on to allude to the female caller and/or Maharaj.

“The same person sent the following text: ‘This woman bought a gun for her son and I know that you know her. I want stiff justice because I will buy a gun to take her life.”

Maharaj flatly denied he has ever threatened the PM. “I don't want to threaten Dr Rowley. I’ll ‘threaten’ his incompetence, his arrogance and his ineptness but not his life.” Maharaj said the recording was by a very distraught woman whose daughter had been raped and murdered, without the mother ever feeling she had got justice. “She has not got help. No one was responding. If they want to accuse me of being sympathetic to this woman’s plight, I have no problem.”

Otherwise, Rowley indicated, “That is the kind of communication that he and the UNC brigade are telling the population that they are entitled to have with their public officials. This is the conduct that the Opposition Leader thinks we should ignore and ‘grow up.’

“Why are any of you surprised? After all didn’t we ignore criminal conduct and grow up when a ‘plant like substance’ was found on the bedroom window sill of a former Prime Minister?

“The moral of this story is that this country cannot look to Devant Maharaj and Kamla Persad Bissessar for leadership and guidance on any issue big or small.”

Maharaj retorted that Rowley is not governing the country but wasting the past four days engaging in a row over phone numbers of Cabinet ministers.

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