Gail Alexan­der

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Dwayne Gibbs and the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion must now act im­me­di­ate­ly on Works Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er fol­low­ing lat­est rev­e­la­tions about bribery al­le­ga­tions and about Warn­er's FI­FA pen­sion, says for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning

"Wake up Madam. Do your du­ty. Fire Jack Warn­er forth­with," Man­ning said in a state­ment. His me­dia re­lease fol­lowed rev­e­la­tions about Warn­er from a FI­FA Ethics Com­mit­tee re­port and British news­pa­pers on Warn­er's pen­sion.

Man­ning added: "New rev­e­la­tions deep­en the rot and point to the na­ture of the in­di­vid­ual. First­ly, though he con­tin­ues un­con­vinc­ing­ly to protest his in­no­cence, the Ethics Com­mit­tee re­port has now stripped him bare, say­ing there is 'com­pre­hen­sive, con­vinc­ing and over­whelm­ing proof' that bribes were paid in Port-of-Spain and Warn­er had fa­cil­i­tat­ed this.

"Worse, with pi­ous protes­ta­tions, he told the peo­ple on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions he did not re­ceive a salary from FI­FA, want­i­ng to give the im­pres­sion his in­volve­ment in the or­gan­i­sa­tion stemmed from noth­ing less than the purest no­bil­i­ty of ser­vice. "But now re­ports in Lon­don news­pa­pers re­veal all along he has been get­ting an an­nu­al re­mu­ner­a­tion and is now en­ti­tled to re­ceive a pen­sion." Man­ning added: "The man was clear­ly re­ceiv­ing a pen­sion­able salary but bold­ly and pub­licly de­nied this sev­er­al times. (GA)