Richard Lord

"They ex­pect­ed to get away with it...It was on­ly pub­lic out­rage and per­sis­tent calls for the Gov­ern­ment to ac­count that forced the Gov­ern­ment to back away," he stressed.Row­ley de­scribed the PMs state­ment as hol­low and self-serv­ing."I don't ac­cept any­thing the Prime Min­is­ter says," he said."The is­sue was not about spy­ing but ap­point­ment to a post where the can­di­date was most un­suit­ed and could have had dis­as­trous con­se­quences."Row­ley said the hir­ing of Ram­nar­ine was a per­fect ex­am­ple of ex­pand­ed abus­es at the SIA.He said the Gov­ern­ment was not sup­posed to be run like it was kinder­garten.