Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Sen­a­tor Tahar­qa Obi­ka was evict­ed from the Sen­ate on Wednes­day by Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo for de­fy­ing in­struc­tions giv­en to him.

This oc­curred af­ter Obi­ka sought a re­ply on the time­line for com­ple­tion of the Ear­ly Child­hood Cen­tre in South­ern Gar­dens, Point Fortin.

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Clarence Ramb­harat said the mat­ter had been ex­plained be­fore. He re­it­er­at­ed that the cen­tre was com­plet­ed since 2013. How­ev­er, the Chatham Gov­ern­ment school was tem­porar­i­ly placed there.

Obi­ka said the query hadn’t been an­swered, adding, “You suf­fer­ing the peo­ple.”

He was cau­tioned by Kan­ga­loo.

Pos­ing the query again, Obi­ka in­ter­ject­ed, “You’ve failed."

He was told to with­draw that and apol­o­gise by Kan­ga­loo. But he said the query wasn’t an­swered. He was then ad­vised to take his seat. But he asked the rea­son for the in­struc­tion.

When he didn’t com­ply and con­tin­ued protest­ing, he was told to leave the cham­ber by Kan­ga­loo.