IN his presentation to the National Assembly during the debate on the 2013 Budget, WPA representative in the APNU, Demond Trotman, said:    “People out there see the PPP as a criminal cabal to be dismantled.” At the conclusion of Trotman’s presentation I rose and objected to this sordid characterisation of the PPP on the ground that implicitly, to describe the PPP as a “criminal cabal” would mean that PPP MPs are involved in criminal activities and therefore should be prosecuted.
                                                   
The logical conclusion of this wicked, malicious and jaundiced expression  is that  PPP MPs ought not to be seated in the National Assembly,  were we to accept that the PPP is “a criminal cabal”.

 In this regard, I requested that Trotman’s  remarks be struck from the records or that they be withdrawn.  In response, the House was advised that Trotman was simply “reporting what the people are saying and that the words were not his”.

Consequently, my remarks on the matter were noted for the records. I further requested that since Mr. Trotman seemed supportive of the claim that  the PPP is viewed as a “criminal cabal to be dismantled’ he should provide information on the matter to the police or the police be asked to visit him with a view to soliciting whatever information he might have on the matter.

Trotman was so advised and the matter was left at that in so far as his privileges in  the National Assembly are concerned.

I intend to follow up this matter with both Mr. Trotman and the police.