Oilfield Workers' Trade Union president general Ancel Roget thanked Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar for accepting the trade union movement's recommendation for a forensic audit into State-owned Petrotrin. Roget expressed his gratitude as he mounted Persad-Bissesar's-led People's Partnership political platform at Market Square, Point Fortin, on Thursday night. Roget, who appeared on the platform for the first time, said, "I want to thank my sister Kamla for accepting the recommendation of the trade union movement and the workers agenda. It is the recommendation to have a forensic audit into the Petrotrin Trinmar operations of T&T. "Once that is done the country will see who stole from you and they must face jail," he said.
He questioned why after two and half years Prime Minister Patrick Manning called a snap election and why he postponed local government elections four times. "But instead, we end up at the cross-roads where we are today having to make a decision in what is now a general election. "You see it is the strategy of Mr Manning and the PNM because they are bankrupt of ideas to run the country and they are bankrupt of ideas to come to you so it is their strategy to make confusion and bacchanal in this election and to date Mr Manning has not answered the question to the population honestly as to why it is we are going back to the polls." In order for people to survive, they must have a decent standard of living and a good system of governance, he said, "The PNM have to die and bury," he said. COP political leader Winston Dookeran hailed Roget's appearance on the platform as a "historical presence."