RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Two weeks af­ter nine-year-old Jo­mol Mod­este was shot and killed, res­i­dents of En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, are call­ing on the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties to es­tab­lish a po­lice post near the African Grounds Sa­van­nah in a bid to re­store safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty.

The res­i­dents have al­so cre­at­ed an on­line pe­ti­tion to high­light their plight and gar­ner sup­port from mem­bers of the pub­lic in a bid to get a favourable re­sponse from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice and Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty.

The pe­ti­tion was cre­at­ed about one week ago. There were 498 sig­na­tures up to late Thurs­day.

It read: “We the res­i­dents of the En­ter­prise Com­mu­ni­ty will like to feel safe and com­fort­able with our chil­dren en­gag­ing in recre­ation­al ac­tiv­i­ties and we would like to be able to ex­er­cise dai­ly at the African Grounds Sa­van­nah, En­ter­prise Street, En­ter­prise. We are pe­ti­tion­ing for the safe­ty of us and our chil­dren.”

It added, “We lost our dear­est Jo­mol Mod­este at such a young age and to­day we stand with his par­ents who doesn’t (sic) want an­oth­er in­ci­dent of such na­ture to oc­cur. Enough is Enough! We the un­der­signed want a Po­lice Post at the African Grounds Sa­van­nah in En­ter­prise.”

Ch­agua­nas East MP Van­dana Mo­hit has al­so lent her sup­port to the res­i­dents and their pe­ti­tion ini­tia­tive, say­ing: “I sup­port this pe­ti­tion one hun­dred per cent as it re­lates to the plight of the peo­ple of En­ter­prise and those work­ing very hard to en­sure that the youth with­in En­ter­prise is head­ing in the right di­rec­tion.”

Mo­hit said she al­so penned a let­ter to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds ask­ing for his in­ter­ven­tion.

“I asked for his im­me­di­ate in­ter­ven­tion as it re­lates to this po­lice post at the En­ter­prise Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre in the vicin­i­ty of the African Grounds.

I do hope to get a speedy re­sponse see­ing that this sit­u­a­tion is wors­en­ing in the vicin­i­ty of the ground and in the area,” Mo­hit said.