Georgetown : Opposition parties move for a no confidence motion in Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, at today’s Sitting of the National Assembly is precipitous and unconstitutional, according to Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, as the Constitution of the land states how a Minister can be removed from Office.
According to Nandlall speaking on the National Communications Network (NCN) last evening,
the opposition has now turned to blaming the Minister for the Linden deaths even though the police have reported that no political directive was given for their actions during the July 18 clash between themselves and the protestors that left three dead and, the Minister himself stating that he has a clear conscience and had no hand in whatever actions the police took.
Minister Nandlall said, “that type of posterior is predetermining and pre-empting the mandate and the remit of the Commission of Enquiry which is being set up because it is simply determining that Minister Rohee is somehow responsible. Not because a person is a Minister and an agency which falls under him commits an error; let us assume that an error was committed on the part of the police that ipso facto render that Minister at fault.”
“The constitution of our country, which is the supreme law of our land, provides specifically how a minister of the government who sits in the National Assembly can vacate office and, it lists several grounds. The President can revoke his appointment; the minister must be convicted of a criminal offence; or the minister is insane or the Minister resigns. These are the subject of express provisions of the constitution of our country, so we don’t have to speculate on what grounds a minister can be removed.”
‘No confidence’ by the Parliament is not one of them, Minister Nandlall stated.
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