Ch­agua­nas East MP, Van­dana Mo­hit, is im­plor­ing those in au­thor­i­ty to take ac­tion re­gard­ing the kid­nap­ping of busi­ness­man Shashi Anand Ram­per­sad.

She ex­pressed con­cern sur­round­ing the kid­nap­ping of Ram­per­sad and ex­tend­ed a call to ac­tion to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, and all rel­e­vant agen­cies to in­ten­si­fy their ef­forts to se­cure his safe re­turn and bring the per­pe­tra­tors to jus­tice.

She la­belled the kid­nap­ping of the cen­tral busi­ness­man as "a brazen act of vi­o­lence" that has plunged the Ram­per­sad fam­i­ly in­to unimag­in­able pain and left the com­mu­ni­ty gripped with fear and un­cer­tain­ty.

In a state­ment, she em­pha­sised that Ram­per­sad "has be­come an­oth­er vic­tim of a sys­tem that con­tin­ues to fal­ter in pro­tect­ing its cit­i­zens. His ab­duc­tion is a stark re­minder of the per­ilous re­al­i­ty faced by law-abid­ing cit­i­zens across Trinidad and To­ba­go."

She added that the kid­nap­ping is a "heart­break­ing in­dict­ment of a na­tion where crime con­tin­ues to spi­ral out of con­trol, em­bold­ened by the seem­ing in­ac­tion and in­ef­fec­tive­ness of those en­trust­ed with our safe­ty."

Mo­hit al­so de­mand­ed an­swers for sev­er­al ques­tions re­lat­ing to Ram­per­sad's ab­duc­tion.

-What is the gov­ern­ment’s im­me­di­ate plan to en­sure Shashi Anand Ram­per­sad is safe­ly re­turned to his fam­i­ly?

-What mea­sures are be­ing im­ple­ment­ed to com­bat the scourge of kid­nap­pings that ter­ror­ize com­mu­ni­ties?

-What will the au­thor­i­ties do to pre­vent oth­er fam­i­lies from en­dur­ing this

night­mare?

Mo­hit said she stands in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Ram­per­sad's fam­i­ly and is call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to do more than "of­fer emp­ty promis­es."