For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has re­spond­ed to al­le­ga­tions of the Prime Min­is­ter's Res­i­dence be­ing un­fit for pur­pose by post­ing a video show­ing the res­i­dence when he ex­it­ed of­fice.

In the ap­prox­i­mate­ly four-minute-long video post­ed to Dr Row­ley's Face­book page this morn­ing, the for­mer Diego Mar­tin West MP shows the con­di­tion of each room—the bed­rooms, the liv­ing and of­fice spaces and even the kitchen—which seem to con­trast the cur­rent con­di­tion high­light­ed by Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Bar­ry Padarath.

On Mon­day, Min­is­ter Padarath said the res­i­dence, which is lo­cat­ed at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, was plagued with many is­sues such as mould, leav­ing Prime Min­is­ter Per­sad-Bisses­sar with­out any choice but to work from home.

Min­is­ter Padarath dou­bled down on his claims this morn­ing, say­ing the video shared by Dr Row­ley was quote "doc­tored".

He then con­duct­ed a vir­tu­al tour of the res­i­dence, which was shared live on Face­book.

Ac­cord­ing to the min­is­ter, the fact that Dr Row­ley shared such a video can be con­sid­ered a se­cu­ri­ty breach. He al­so main­tains there is a “vari­a­tion in what the for­mer prime min­is­ter has put out in a video, claim­ing that those were the con­di­tions he left the res­i­dence in”, and what he and the team who toured the premis­es dis­cov­ered ear­li­er this week.

“It does not re­flect what we met up­on ar­rival here on Mon­day,” the Min­is­ter as­sert­ed. “There were sev­er­al is­sues that were raised … The con­di­tion of the grounds … there were struc­tur­al is­sues—large gap­ing holes in the moat, raw sewage … flood­wa­ters in the moat ... the pool where many of the tiles have be­come loos­ened.”

On Mon­day, the PM’s Res­i­dence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, as well as the PM’s Of­fice at White­hall, were vis­it­ed by a team that in­clud­ed Min­is­ter Padarath; Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary Nicholas Mor­ris; and Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Natasha Bar­row, the Head of the Pub­lic Ser­vice.