The walls of the PP Gov­ern­ment's Jeri­cho are tum­bling down, says PNM Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds. Speak­ing be­fore yes­ter­day's Sen­ate ses­sion, Hinds said: "We felt Mrs Mary King should have re­signed, giv­en the stan­dards she had es­poused as Trans­paren­cy In­ter­na­tion­al (TI) chair­man, dur­ing the last elec­tion and even when she was an In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tor. "She should not have stuck around to have been fired...But not hav­ing had the in­tegri­ty to do that, it was quite right the Prime Min­is­ter had to ask the Pres­i­dent to re­lieve her of her du­ties be­cause she (King) act­ed rather fool­ish­ly," he said. "I sus­pect she al­lowed her par­ent­ly and wife­ly emo­tions to get the bet­ter of her. "But it re­al­ly tells us a lot of hard ev­i­dence about this Gov­ern­ment...A lot of them came to­geth­er to form the PP and nev­er had any shared phi­los­o­phy or test­ed in­tegri­ty.

"The walls of their Jeri­cho are now tum­bling down... I saw PP sen­a­tors David Ab­du­lah look­ing som­bre, he now un­der­stands those pil­lars are crum­bling. "They're al­so deal­ing with al­le­ga­tions about Jack Warn­er and Fi­fa, made in the UK Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day. "But we had warned them that all that glit­ters is not gold and we now see they are on­ly fight­ing over the spoils of of­fice and try­ing to get even with the PNM. "They don't know how to run a coun­try...I'm sure they can't run a suc­cess­ful shop or bar­ra busi­ness." In­de­pen­dent Sen­ate bench leader Bashar­rat Ali said he felt King should have re­signed. "From what I read, she had no grounds to stand on. The on­ly thing good about this is that it was dealt with quick­ly," he said. (GA)