CEPEP once again re­futes claims of po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.

This time, it fol­lows a post by the Face­book page Kick out the PNM, which al­leged that CEPEP work­ers were “strong­ly ad­vised” to at­tend po­lit­i­cal events where the Prime Min­is­ter would be present.

In a new state­ment to­day, the CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed said it “has nev­er had meet­ings with con­trac­tors re­lat­ed to at­ten­dance at po­lit­i­cal meet­ings,” and added that “no memo has ever been sent out” on the mat­ter.

“We’re aware of a fake memo be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed on­line claim­ing to be from The CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed. We want to make it ab­solute­ly clear — this memo is 100% fake and was nev­er is­sued by us.”

The com­pa­ny said such con­tent is part of on­go­ing po­lit­i­cal mis­chief “de­signed to cre­ate doubt in the minds of vot­ers and de­fame the Com­pa­ny.”

CEPEP first ad­dressed sim­i­lar al­le­ga­tions last Fri­day, af­ter a post on the Ian Al­leyne Net­work’s of­fi­cial Face­book page claimed the com­pa­ny called a meet­ing to “threat­en” con­trac­tors and em­ploy­ees in­to at­tend­ing po­lit­i­cal ral­lies.

The com­pa­ny re­ject­ed the claim and re­it­er­at­ed, “The CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed is a NON-PO­LIT­I­CAL State Agency and there­fore, has nev­er en­gaged in any such ac­tiv­i­ties.”

It al­so called on those spread­ing these mes­sages to stop what it de­scribed as “ma­li­cious ru­mours” and “ill-in­tent un­truths,” par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing what it called the “sil­ly sea­son” of pol­i­tics.

"The CEPEP Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed is not af­fil­i­at­ed with any po­lit­i­cal par­ty. We re­main com­mit­ted to serv­ing the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go with in­tegri­ty, trans­paren­cy, and love for our coun­try,” the com­pa­ny said.