Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar made her revelation about "PNM" wiretapping because pressures from various issues had been building up against the Government, PNM Senator Terrence Deyalsingh said yesterday.
Speaking in the Senate on the Interception of Communications Bill, Deyalsingh said he shared the Government's indignation that the issue had raised its head.He said he also shared PNM leader Keith Rowley's view that the PNM would not defend the indefensible. But he said several things had preceded the PP's revelations. Deyalsingh said these included statements that T&T was "not an ATM machine, airport authority contracts, "runaway MPs" speaking out of turn, the unresolved Clico issue.
He also cited debts owed to contractors, PSA payments, aid to storm-hit Caribbean islands and the Fazeer Mohammed furore.
Noting a 1997 motion in which former UNC prime minister Basdeo Panday spoke about infiltrating the Opposition via security mechanism, Deyalsingh said:"We're all in this, there's enough blame to go around, we are all culpable–the days for pointing fingers saying 'you shouldn't do it' are over."