FIRSTLY, I wish to most sincerely compliment our security guards Chatter Pooran and Shameer Ishak, of the Enterprise Primary School for being so alert and dynamic to not only observe the fires, but calling on his colleague and the neighborhood to launch a water bucket brigade which saved the school from destruction, and which would have destroyed computers, learning equipment, table and chairs, etc.
Hundreds of lives, if not thousands, would have been affected, and could have created great inconvenience for the parents and children of the community, affecting their education and their future.

Despite the constraints of improper fences and lighting, the ranks at Annandale also performed excellently, which brought credit to themselves and to our company.

I also wish to thank most kindly the community of Enterprise for trying to help the security guards pursue the criminal arsonists, and for the large scale bucket brigade which saved the school. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened to the arsonists had the community laid hands on them.

As the Security Service Provider, I wish to make it abundantly clear that the fires/arson attempts, at the Enterprise Primary and Annandale Schools, in my opinion and that of our learned investigators, are not at all associated with upcoming elections, as some community persons seem to suspect.

Others opine that it was probably due to the noise nuisance show that was stopped by the police, and the revellers being annoyed. I know how dangerous drunken revellers could be, and the danger they pose to society.

However, our investigators realise that both attempts of arson were not a spontaneous thing, especially the one at Enterprise.

The place was soaked at various strategic points with kerosene mixed with diesel. The floor being heavily saturated with the mixture, show that there was a criminal conspiracy, a plan to ferment a fire. A spontaneous action of anger would not have resulted in such a heavy mixture, well placed and saturated to the points that it leaked through the flooring.

Our opinion is that it is due to an act of ‘sabotage’, by persons who were involved in trying to prevent us from taking up the contract and execute proper service when we were awarded the contract in November 2009.

People were paid to attack our personnel; bricks were thrown at our vehicles; security officers were threatened and supervisors working for a particular region and that entity, encouraged security guards to walk off and misbehave.

This happened in Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Also in Region 4 in particular, certain locations were broken into and from the evidence, they were not normal thefts but mostly attempts to make us look bad.” The contract is again going up for tender in the near future.

The police are advised to concentrate their investigations also in this direction.

So please, let us not start entertaining political conspiracies. These were acts of a desperate business entity accustomed to such kinds of behaviour and seemed trained for them.