We have all heard it before: 'mouth open story jump out.' When friends, colleagues, bosom buddies or in this case politicians, become enemies, or when 'the gloves come off,' the stories become riveting.
Yet for legal purposes they are often required to carry 'allege' simply as a means of avoiding the pre-action protocol letters from the battery of lawyers on standby to eat-a-food at the treasury-financed trough.
It is when we also learn that other key players in the game are either 'clueless' or suffer bouts of amnesia, conveniently.
Denial is the order of the day. But it is easy, for full life is breathed into such stories in a regime riddled with mountainous evidence of incompetence, corruption, nepotism and the likes.
Uncle Jack recently admitted in a statement where, in his capacity as Minister of National Security, he conspired with others to "bury a report" of a "drug bust" at the private residence of the Prime Minister. While a mere four ounces of weed does not qualify, in my estimation, to be a "drug bust," I have also known men who were arrested and imprisoned for half-a-joint.
My concern here is not with the weed per se, as it was also said that the PM was out of the country when the find was made. It is with Uncle Jack and his co-conspirators, and the question becomes: what else have these people conspired to bury? Uncle Jack also seems to have, in his MO, a team of co-conspirators, spread across the globe.
The one part of his story which has baffled me is the part in which he says the PM enquired whether she should "return home immediately and resign."
During the five years at the helm of this dysfunctional regime never once have we ever heard the term resign coming from the lips of the PM. For example, not once did we ever hear this term over Section 34, which was one of their biggest faux pas ever, which saw the sacrifice of Volcano Volney.
We are quite aware that Uncle Jack has a reputation of making some outrageous allegations, albeit muffled, and at times difficult to comprehend. Is he a drowning man, merely grasping at straws? Did he just make up this story from the caverns of his mind?
And if so, is this the best he can do? The mention of the players involved in their past and present roles, especially that of a senior "career policeman," when taken in context, however, lends a sense of legitimacy to his claim.
Assuming for a second that the story is accurate, who 'planted the four ounces' at the residence of the PM?
Wasn't that a case for the TTPS? For if someone can be so brazen to plant that, what else could the person(s) have accomplished? Or is this just another case of a couple kilos of cocaine and a rocket launcher planted in the water tank of Mr Sadiq Baksh?
Who has access to the private residence of the PM? Wouldn't it have been much easier to investigate persons who entered the compound on that particular day and ascertain the Ganga Planter than to engage in a cover up?
As we wait to see what other revelations will be made, now that the "gloves are off" and Uncle Jack hitting below the belt, we wonder how it is that we are continuously saddled with such social misfits every five years?
Then I recall God is Trini, who must have a tremendous sense of humour.
Rudy Chato Paul, Sr
D'Abadie