Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar is de­scrib­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour's news con­fer­ence to­day as a "bizarre" one that has on­ly served to raise more ques­tions than an­swers.

To­day AG Ar­mour ad­dressed the me­dia about the re­cent award of $20m to the 9 men ac­cused of killing busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul Cool­man in 2006.

The award was made af­ter the State failed to pro­vide a de­fence in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion suit brought by the men af­ter they were freed.

Fol­low­ing the news con­fer­ence Mrs Per­sad Biss­esar said " it is sim­ply be­yond be­lief that a file against the state in­volv­ing one of the most high-pro­file mur­der cas­es in our na­tion’s his­to­ry can “sim­ply dis­ap­pear” from the of­fice of the So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al. It al­so beg­gar’s be­lief that Mr Ar­mour feels he can dis­tance him­self from this scan­dal even though the So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al’s of­fice falls di­rect­ly un­der his con­trol."

She said Ar­mour’s call for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion is clear­ly an at­tempt to pass the blame for this scan­dal on­to any­one and every­one apart from him­self, his pre­de­ces­sor Faris Al -Rawi and the head of the Cab­i­net Kei­th Row­ley.

This scan­dal rep­re­sents a se­ri­ous in­dict­ment on the com­pe­tence and in­tegri­ty of AG Ar­mour, his pre­de­ces­sor Faris Al Rawi as well as the head of the cab­i­net Kei­th Row­ley and should serve as grounds for im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tions," she said.

How­ev­er, she said mem­bers of this PNM regime con­sis­tent­ly demon­strate that they be­lieve they are above the law and above de­mands for ac­count­abil­i­ty from the cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go.