FOLLOWING the attempted channa bombing (Molotov cocktail) incident at the home of acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba on Wednesday, the police said they are yet to make an arrest but the probe is quite active.

Sooba yesterday told this publication that she spent the entire morning hours detailing a comprehensive statement for the police at her City Hall office but she was pleased that the process was complete so that the police can do their work.

She added that since the Wednesday incident at her residence there has been a new development to again malign her but she is not willing to disclose the details as yet but nevertheless she is standing firm.

The senior City Hall official added that she is, however, cooperating with the police.

Police reported that at about 01:30hrs on August 06, 2014, two Molotov cocktails were thrown into the premises of Carol Sooba at her Duncan Street, Campbellville, Georgetown residence.

At the time, Sooba was at home with several relatives while her security was also present when a dark coloured motorcar pulled up in front of her house and occupant (s) hurled two channa bombs into her yard.

As a result, the front of her two-storey wooden house was slightly scorched, a PVC pipe in her yard was also scorched and several window panes from the guard hut were shattered.

When this publication visited the scene on Wednesday morning there were remnants of broken glass from bottles on the ground and a visibly shaken Sooba greeted the media and offered a comment.

The acting Town Clerk believes that it was another well planned move to terrorise her since she was expected to make a court appearance that very day.

Public Relations Officer of M&CC Royston King after a ruling from Chief Justice Ian Chang stated that Sooba was the de facto Town Clerk and she could remain in that position until her appointment was challenged by a quo warranto ( a writ demanding by what authority a person claims an office). King went ahead and filed the quo warranto, subsequent to Sooba and himself approaching the Court of Appeal to quash the ruling of the Chief Justice.

The case was however, adjourned to a later date.

This latest seemingly calculated attack on Sooba came days after Mayor Hamilton Green ordered Chief Constable Andrew Foo to pull security personnel from Sooba’s residence.

(By Michel Outridge)