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Former Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley recounts the events leading to the dismissal of Roger Best from the SSA as he laments the personalities joining the UNC.
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00:00Political leader of the People's National Movement, Dr. Keith Rowley, urges citizens to carefully consider the proposals being made by opponents in the United National Congress.
00:11Yet, you have these political nitwits and nincompoops stirring you up, making you uncomfortable, encouraging you in hatred even based along racial lines, trying to make you feel that you are under some excessive pressure because of government incompetence or government uncaring.
00:32The electorate, for the sake of the children, he says, ought to be careful as to who is influencing their vote.
00:41The next one is the international stamp called Jack Warner. He is walking the roads of this country, escorting candidates and recommending candidates. Have you people in this country lost your cotton-picking mind?
00:57This as he publicly recounted information coming to him as Prime Minister that the SSA was penetrated and engaged in activities which remain classified.
01:09I had to take action. The first action I took was to call Ambassador Philip Spencer in Washington, tell him, pack your bags, don't even speak to your wife, get on the next plane and call me on the land in Trinidad.
01:26It was Spencer, he said, who received documentation that Best's purchases of two military-grade snipers had arrived.
01:35Whoever is using that, once they put that telescope on you, they could shoot you 3,000 yards away and there's no report of a weapon being fired because the weapon has a silencer.
01:49So I said, nobody goes to bed tonight until the commissioner of police find the money, go and pay the outstanding half and take possession of it.
02:00And the man responsible, Rowley says, is now part of the UNC's entourage.
02:05But he could put on a UNC jersey and head for a public meeting to go and tell the country he is here to support Munilal.
02:13He says something is radically wrong with the population if they vote for the UNC.
02:20My biggest fear, my biggest fear is that you would gamble and lose because when the UNC wins, everybody loses.
02:29Orvishit Tawari, Rupanarayan, TV6 News.
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