00:00Former National Security Minister Gary Griffith has taken note of the statements made by Defence Minister Wayne Sturge.
00:06On Friday, Sturge placed on the handsad that Dana Sita-Hal knew that she would be killed
00:12and that there was the interception of calls related to the hit on her life.
00:16But Griffith urges caution.
00:18We have to be very careful as to what we say because these matters are still under investigation.
00:23Persons have been charged for this offence, so we have to be very careful what is being said.
00:27Given that Sturge aimed his comment at the People's National Movement in error,
00:32accusing them of not doing anything about it, TV6 News posed the question to Griffith
00:37as to whether he had that information as he was in government at the time.
00:42At no time during the period under the People's Partnership Administration when Dana Sita-Hal was killed
00:48that no such information came to the National Security Council
00:52that was brought to the attention of the Prime Minister as the Chair of the National Security Council,
00:57myself as the Minister of National Security or the National Security Council.
01:01And he is seeking to add further clarity pertaining to the alleged interception on Sita-Hal's assassination.
01:07That at no time we received any information from law enforcement agencies
01:13that an intercept had taken place on criminal elements who had planned to assassinate Dana Sita-Hal.
01:17And definitely at no time did we reject providing security for Dana Sita-Hal at that time.
01:24He believes that a proper plea bargaining system could be used for breakthroughs in cases such as that of Sita
01:30-Hal.
01:30You would have known that a number of persons were charged,
01:33but charging the small fish who would have been individuals who would have operated the trigger
01:37and committed the act, that is not good enough.
01:40What I wanted as the Minister of National Security was to go after the person who called the hit.
01:46And that is where plea bargaining would come in.
01:48That again is a decision that has to be made by the DPP and the police service,
01:53not the Minister of National Security.
01:55Griffiths says without a fully functional plea bargaining system,
01:58those heading these crimes will continue to walk free.
02:01Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
02:04Thank you for listening.
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