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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Threat issued against Kamla

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1670 days ago
20200727
UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and former MP Clifton De Coteau waves to supporters during a walkabout for Moruga/Tableland candidate Michelle Benjamin yesterday.

UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and former MP Clifton De Coteau waves to supporters during a walkabout for Moruga/Tableland candidate Michelle Benjamin yesterday.

Courtesy UNC Facebook Page

pe­ter.christo­pher@guardian.co.tt

A death threat has been made against Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith re­vealed at a press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day.

“We have a re­cent sit­u­a­tion where one ma­jor po­lit­i­cal leader, there has just been a death threat on that in­di­vid­ual and it shows the sit­u­a­tion of where we live and how we live,” he said.

The com­mis­sion­er opt­ed not to iden­ti­fy the po­lit­i­cal leader.

“It was a call that was made where an in­di­vid­ual stat­ed that he in­tends to kill that po­lit­i­cal leader to en­sure that po­lit­i­cal leader would not be Prime Min­is­ter af­ter Au­gust the 10th. So the po­lice we are in­ves­ti­gat­ing,” said Grif­fith.

Guardian Me­dia was lat­er in­formed that the threat had been made against the UNC leader. She had al­so been threat­ened in the build-up to the 2010 elec­tion, with a $5 mil­lion hit placed on her and was af­ford­ed ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar par­tic­i­pat­ed in a cam­paign walk­a­bout in Moru­ga/Table­land yes­ter­day.


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