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Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Diego Mar­tin East Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Colm Im­bert is call­ing on act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams to probe claims that At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Garvin Nicholas is dis­trib­ut­ing food cards. He al­so called on Williams to probe al­le­ga­tions of food card theft from his con­stituen­cy.

Im­bert made the claim at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing held by the par­ty at St Au­gus­tine on Thurs­day night.

"Two months ago I heard that a UNC ac­tivist who I have al­ready beat­en twice in my con­stituen­cy and if he come again he would get beat­en for a third time....hat-trick of licks is what he will get.

"He was giv­ing out food cards in my con­stituen­cy. I want to know how he get them? I want to call on the po­lice. I want the po­lice to in­ves­ti­gate how the present At­tor­ney Gen­er­al..how did he get pos­ses­sion of food cards, and how did he get the au­thor­i­ty to hand out food cards in my con­stituen­cy?" Im­bert ques­tioned.

He al­so called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to pro­vide the na­tion with an­swers on these mat­ters.

"How can the cur­rent At­tor­ney Gen­er­al be hand­ing out food cards? And you know what on the cards? Diego Mar­tin North-East," Im­bert added.

He said his of­fice re­ceived a call at least two weeks ago from the min­istry of the peo­ple in­form­ing his there were 50 food cards for dis­tri­b­u­tion.

"The caller said let Mr Im­bert know we have 50 food cards for dis­tri­b­u­tion by the mem­ber for Diego Mar­tin North East, which is me. And we will be send­ing them to your con­stituen­cy of­fice and we have some doc­u­ments to record the name, tele­phone num­ber and the ID num­ber of every­body you give it out to.

"But I said when did this pro­gram start and I was told in Jan­u­ary. I ask what hap­pen to my cards for Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary they said they don't know...Some­body thief my food cards," Im­bert added.

He al­so called on Williams to in­ves­ti­gate this al­le­ga­tion.

"I am go­ing to write a for­mal com­plaint to the com­mis­sion­er of po­lice. I want to know how a UNC ac­tivist ...what was he do­ing with the food cards that was sup­posed to be giv­en to the MP for Diego Mar­tin North East.

"They damn well thief it but time longer than twine," Im­bert added.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Nicholas said he was in Lon­don and pre­ferred not to com­ment un­til he had heard what Im­bert had said.