Jaya Manickchand: Claims of AG’s involvement are ‘comical’

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Mrs. Jaya Manickchand yesterday weighed in on the allegations made by the Alliance for Change (AFC) against the Attorney-General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Anil Nandlall, describing them as comical.
The AFC’s General-Secretary, Mr. David Patterson, at the party’s news conference on Friday claimed that the AG was involved in the allegations of sexual assault that were made against the Speaker of the House, Mr. Raphael Trotman. He stated that the party is in possession of information towards this end.

The allegations against Trotman were levelled against him by 22-year-old Johnny Welchman (Jr.).
The Speaker of the National Assembly, since the allegations were made, has been most empathic in his denial of claims that he sexually assaulted the young man in question. The allegation was first made public via an entry on the popular social media site, Facebook.
Mr. Manickchand, in a post said: “The AFC’s new script in their ‘defence’ of Trotman’s sexual assault/ buggery allegations of Johnny Welchman is now that Johnny Welshman was sent to me by AG Nandlall. Now this is comical, to say the least.”
The Attorney-at-Law made it clear that it is most unlikely that the AG would ever “pitch” a potential client her way now, since he has never done so before.
“The AG and I are not friends and are not even friendly. My friends in the legal fraternity and political arena know this too well,” she asserted.
Additionally, Nandlall himself has rejected the AFC’s claims.
“It is with utter shock that I learnt that I am the latest casualty in a long list of persons implicated by the Alliance For Change ( AFC ), in the sexual abuse scandal in which their Founder Leader and Speaker of the National Assembly, the Honourable Raphael Trotman is currently embroiled,” he said.
Nandlall stated that after the allegations were made public, he did in fact speak to Trotman, but was emphatic in stressing his denial of any involvement in, or connection with, either directly or indirectly, the “sexual assault fiasco.”
“It is unfortunate that in their quest to extricate their own, from this morass, the AFC is prepared to implicate so many others,” he concluded.