Af­ter be­ing in­ter­viewed by po­lice, Sasha Mo­hammed should of­fer her res­ig­na­tion to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad if she is to be any sort of as­set to the PM, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj said yes­ter­day.Mo­hammed was in­ter­viewed last Fri­day by po­lice in­ves­ti­gat­ing e-mail at­tacks on Ex­press ed­i­tor Omatie Ly­der and re­porter An­na Ram­dass ear­li­er this year when the Resh­mi Ram­nar­ine is­sue was in the news.Af­ter po­lice re­port­ed­ly traced the e-mail in ques­tion to an IP ad­dress des­ig­nat­ed to Mo­hammed, the au­thor­i­ties called Mo­hammed in for an in­ter­view on the is­sue and re­port­ed­ly warned her.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­mained silent on the is­sue con­cern­ing her $30,000 a month ad­vis­er job. Mo­hammed is based at the PM's of­fice.Op­po­si­tion Leader Kei­th Row­ley, who called for Mo­hammed's re­moval, said the PNM con­tin­ued to feel threat­ened by the pres­ence of Mo­hammed (and SIA's Julie Brown) since they had state mech­a­nisms to dam­age me­dia work­ers and oth­er cit­i­zens "to make the Gov­ern­ment look good."Row­ley said he could not see how any Prime Min­is­ter, who want­ed to treat with T&T in a prop­er way, could have an ad­vis­er who was ques­tioned by po­lice.

Yes­ter­day, Ram­samooj added: "If Mo­hammed re­signs, this will cur­tail any fur­ther em­bar­rass­ment to the Prime Min­is­ter."Clear­ly there is a ques­tion of in­tegri­ty and pub­lic trust and the chief mes­sen­ger has now be­come con­tro­ver­sial and will be in­ef­fec­tive in deal­ing with any Gov­ern­ment mes­sage with any lev­el of cred­i­bil­i­ty."Af­ter one year in Gov­ern­ment, the Prime Min­is­ter must now cor­rect any flaws in her Gov­ern­ment, free from any fear and favour."The ob­jec­tive of a po­lit­i­cal leader is to sus­tain po­lit­i­cal pow­er and the right po­lit­i­cal course of ac­tion must be ad­hered to."

Ram­samooj added: "The Prime Min­is­ter should con­sid­er a crit­i­cal re­view of her de­ci­sion-mak­ing process­es. "Clear­ly, the present pub­lic re­la­tions spin is not cre­at­ing the type of gov­er­nance that was promised dur­ing the elec­tion cam­paign of 2010."She must al­so be cog­nisant of the po­lit­i­cal con­se­quences of a Gov­ern­ment with re­spect to the pend­ing THA elec­tion which will serve as a barom­e­ter of her favoura­bil­i­ty rat­ing and the PP's." PNM MP Colm Im­bert said: "From all the com­men­tary on the is­sue, the Prime Min­is­ter should take ac­tion." (GA)