Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Bernadette Alex­is, wife of Sel­wyn "Robo­cop" Alex­is, one of the 16 men who had been de­tained dur­ing the state of emer­gency, said yes­ter­day she was ter­ri­fied her hus­band could be killed by po­lice as soon as he was re­leased from cus­tody.She spent most of yes­ter­day mak­ing se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments for her hus­band, who was de­tained for al­leged­ly con­spir­ing to as­sas­si­nate Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, Hous­ing Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Chan­dresh Shar­ma.

Dur­ing a brief in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Alex­is said she was wor­ried about Robo­cop's safe­ty be­cause, she claimed, he had a lot of "po­lice en­e­mies."She added: "I know this would have been the out­come. It nev­er had a plot. Right now all I am think­ing about is Robo's safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty. "He has a lot of en­e­mies in the po­lice so we are mak­ing spe­cial se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments for him."

Asked what she planned to cook for her hus­band, Alex­is said: "I didn't have time to plan that. Robo eats what­ev­er I cook. If I ask him what he wants to eat, he would say any­thing."She said dur­ing his in­car­cer­a­tion, her hus­band ate bis­cuits and cheese. "He don't ever eat their food so he eats what we bring for him." she said.Alex­is said she last spoke to her hus­band sev­er­al days ago and she was hap­py he was still in good health.

She ex­plained that Robo­cop's main con­cern was to catch the ear of the Prime Min­is­ter and tell her what he knew about the al­leged plot."I don't know what he wants to say to her but he wants to get his mes­sage across. I hope she lis­tens through the me­dia be­cause we know she will not want to meet with him," she said.Alex­is said her hus­band would take le­gal ac­tion against the State for his il­le­gal in­car­cer­a­tion.She added: "I know he is a vic­tim of the po­lice. Since all of this hap­pened, he has his own views which he will share. He will sure­ly take ac­tion against the State be­cause they abused their pow­er.

"In­ter­na­tion­al­ly we are a laugh­ing stock. Peo­ple from all over the world knew this was a cov­er-up of some­thing. Gov­ern­ment can­not fool every­body all the time." Ar­rest­ed along with Robo­cop in con­nec­tion with a plot to as­sas­si­nate the Prime Min­is­ter and desta­bilise the coun­try were Is­lam­ic cler­ic Ash­mead Chote, Shane Craw­ford, Chione­su Luq­man, Sgt Earl Elie, David Mil­lard, Mil­ton Al­ger­non, William Tay­lor, Andy Brown, Yohann Cruick­shank, Bryan Bar­ring­ton, Khalil Kara­math, Ash­meed Mo­hammed, Zaid Hamid, Do­minic Piti­lal and Ab­dool Ka­reem.