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PNM opposition member and former national security minister Marvin Gonzales is calling on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to get rid of Defence Minister Wayne Sturge from her cabinet and government as he questioned Sturge's campaign in the run up to the 2025 elections and his perceived financial help from murdered businessman Danny Guerra.

Gonzales was speaking at the Opposition Leader's media conference earlier today.

Mark Bassant has the story.
Transcript
00:00The murder of Sangu Ghandi businessman Danny Guerra and his perceived link to financing the election campaign of Wayne Stage
00:06for the Toko Sangu Ghandi constituency, according to opposition member Marvin Gonzalez, is reason enough for Prime Minister Kamala Persaud
00:15-Bissessa to remove Stage from his office and her government.
00:18The opposition is calling upon the Prime Minister to immediately remove Wayne Sturge from the government and the cabinet of
00:30Trinidad and Tobago because, based on these reports, having not been addressed by the Prime Minister, who is the chairman
00:40of the National Security Council,
00:45this is a serious threat to national security in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:53Gonzalez, quoted from a report in The Express from last August written by this journalist about a $2.8 million
01:00hit on government ministers Wayne Sturge, Khadija Amin and Barry Padarath, along with CPEP program manager Feroz Khan,
01:08said that based on the information provided in that article, the contractor who sent the threats at that time was
01:14seemingly the Sangu Ghandi-based contractor Danny Guerra
01:17and said to date the Prime Minister had failed to address these serious concerns about the perceived business-financial campaign
01:25affiliation between Guerra and Sturge.
01:28Gonzalez, in fact, questioned the real reason for the state of emergency, convinced it had nothing to do with the
01:34securing of the country,
01:35but rather to serve the UNC's political purpose.
01:39We now have to ask ourselves whether this state of emergency was called by this government to address crime and
01:48insecurity in Trinidad and Tobago
01:49or whether the government is in self-preservation mode based on deals they would have made with the criminal elements
01:57in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:58A state of public emergency is now declared all over Trinidad and Tobago not to confront crime and criminality in
02:06Trinidad and Tobago.
02:07It is because of deals that the UNC made with criminals in this country.
02:12Gonzalez said the people of the constituency of Toko Sangu Ghandi were now feeling the violent effects allegedly connected to
02:19evil deals made by the UNC.
02:21Today, the constituency of Toko Sangu Ghandi is reaping the whirlwind from those evil deals and it is now a
02:34killing field in Trinidad and Tobago.
02:38Mark Bessant, TV6 News.
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