Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP Sad­dam Ho­sein has called on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to clear the air on “In­ez­gate” and al­le­ga­tions that Row­ley didn’t de­clare to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion the pur­chase of a To­ba­go prop­er­ty in 2019.

Ho­sein spoke about the is­sue at last night’s UNC Vir­tu­al Fo­rum. He de­tailed the con­tents of “files” which UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said in re­cent weeks the UNC had on Row­ley and To­ba­go busi­ness­man Al­lan Warn­er.

Ho­sein said un­der the law, any mem­ber of the pub­lic can ac­cess In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion records.

He said as of last week, checks were done by the UNC at the com­mis­sion and it was re­vealed that the Prime Min­is­ter had failed to de­clare he bought prop­er­ty from In­ez In­vest­ments since Feb­ru­ary 2019.

“This is in vi­o­la­tion of the law,” Ho­sein said.

Ho­sein said In­ez In­vest­ments owned a de­vel­op­ment on Shir­van Road, To­ba­go, which he claimed in­volved 46 town­hous­es. He cit­ed ben­e­fi­cial own­ers list­ed at March 2021 as Mar­i­on Dil­lon-Foder­ing­ham, Keon and Kalana Warn­er and Kai Townsend. He said some are busi­ness as­so­ciates in an­oth­er com­pa­ny with Al­lan Warn­er.

Ho­sein claimed peo­ple who bought town­hous­es in the com­plex in­clud­ed the hus­band of the House Speak­er New­man George and oth­er high-pro­file cit­i­zens.

“And the de­vel­op­ment has many promi­nent PN­Mites pur­chas­ing town­hous­es,” he claimed.

He said sev­er­al peo­ple bought at prices be­tween $1.6 mil­lion and $1.8 mil­lion.

Ho­sein al­leged that from the deeds in the UNCs’ pos­ses­sion, Row­ley got a dis­count on the prop­er­ty pur­chase of Feb­ru­ary 21, 2019.

On the In­tegri­ty de­c­la­ra­tion as­pect, Ho­sein not­ed that when for­mer UNC leader and for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day was charged for fail­ing to de­clare his Lon­don bank ac­count Sec­tion 27 of the In­tegri­ty in Pub­lic Life Act stat­ed that where a per­son­al ben­e­fit ex­ceeds $5,000 in val­ue, the per­son in pub­lic life—like the Prime Min­is­ter—shall file his de­c­la­ra­tion in­di­cat­ing the na­ture of the gift, source and cir­cum­stances un­der which it was giv­en or ac­cept­ed.

He claimed that UNC checks found that some of the oth­er per­sons who pur­chased town­hous­es had all de­clared their pur­chas­es to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion. But he ques­tioned why Row­ley was al­leged­ly “hid­ing the pur­chase,” not­ing he may have “bro­ken the law.”

“This is a mat­ter that war­rants ur­gent ac­tion by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion, as we’re see­ing breach­es of sev­er­al sec­tions of the In­tegri­ty in Pub­lic Life Act. We call on the Prime Min­is­ter to please an­swer these ques­tions and clear the air on this In­ez­gate in­vest­ment and scan­dal,” Ho­sein said.

Ho­sein said af­ter the “loss the Prime Min­is­ter has com­ing in To­ba­go next Mon­day (THA polls), he has an­oth­er one com­ing (with Debe by-elec­tion).”