Sascha Wil­son

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er says it is "patent­ly ab­surd" for dis­missed Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion chair­man Nizam Mo­hammed to ask Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards to ex­plain why he re­voked his ap­point­ment. In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day af­ter at­tend­ing the re-open­ing of Fort George Road, Moru­ga, Warn­er said: "In my hum­ble view it is ab­surd to ask His Ex­cel­len­cy to give an ex­pla­na­tion for his ac­tions.

"It is ab­surd and it tells you why we are where we are to­day, that we are ques­tion­ing His Ex­cel­len­cy and he must give ex­pla­na­tion for why he act­ed as he act­ed. It has to be patent­ly ab­surd."

Mo­hammed, whose ap­point­ment was re­voked on Mon­day be­cause of his con­tro­ver­sial state­ments about eth­nic im­bal­ance in the Po­lice Ser­vice, had asked the Pres­i­dent to give rea­sons for re­vok­ing his ap­point­ment. Say­ing he found Mo­hammed's re­quest dif­fi­cult to ac­cept, Warn­er, who is al­so Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter, said Mo­hammed did not ask pub­licly why he had been ap­point­ed so he should not ask now why he was dis­missed. How­ev­er, Warn­er quick­ly added he did not want to say much on the mat­ter. "The Prime Min­is­ter has spo­ken, the leader of the Op­po­si­tion has spo­ken and His Ex­cel­len­cy has act­ed and as for me let the chips fall where they fall. I am not go­ing to say any­thing (else) at this point," he added.

Asked about calls for com­mis­sion mem­ber Ad­di­son Khan, who sup­port­ed Mo­hammed, to step down, he said: "I don't want to say any­thing about Ad­di­son Khan, what he should do or what he should not do. "I made a re­lease on this mat­ter and the Prime Min­is­ter will be back here on Fri­day and she will speak on this mat­ter. I don't want to say any­thing and even to be ac­cused of be­ing pre­ma­ture at this stage."

Dis­miss­ing calls for the re­moval of the Pres­i­dent for sack­ing Mo­hammed, Warn­er said: "There are some things in life that one must be dis­mis­sive of and that is one such thing." He said he re­fused to dig­ni­fy non­sense with a com­ment. Mean­while, the Pres­i­dent has since re­fused to com­ment on Mo­hammed's call for him to state specif­i­cal­ly and pre­cise­ly why his ap­point­ment was re­voked.