Martin Daly has joined the chorus calling on President George Maxwell Richards to resign over the Integrity Commission fiasco. However, the President of the Law Association said he was speaking in his private capacity as a citizen.Opposition leader Basdeo Panday and the chair of the women's arm of the United National Congress (UNC) Dr Jennifer Jones Kernahan have also called on Richards to resign. Panday said on Saturday, "The President has no alternative but to resign...He has found himself in an untenable position."
Daly told the Trinidad Express, "Like many of my fellow citizens, I have waited patiently for President Richards to break his silence and to communicate with the country on his responsibility for the Integrity Commission fiasco."He suggested that the president's actions are unacceptable.
"President Richards has ignored us and the country cannot be reasonably expected to wait another two weeks while he continues on vacation. In the circumstances, I am now satisfied that he should resign his office for the following reasons:
1. Incompetence in appointing Mr Jeffrey McFarlane when he was manifestly not eligible for appointment to the Integrity Commission.
2. Unreliability, evidenced by his unexplained withdrawal of the offer of the vice chairmanship of the Commission to retired Justice Zainool Hosein and the arbitrary transfer of it to the ineligible Mr Mc- Farlane.
3. Poor judgment evidenced by his dismissal of plagiarism as a mere mistake, especially in the light of the President's past career as principal of a university.
4. Contempt for the people of Trinidad and Tobago by an apparent preference for personal pleasure over performance of duty in remaining abroad, indifference to the crisis of public confidence created by his mis-steps."
Richards is on vacation in Austria and Germany and is expected to return to Trinidad before the end of the month.Related: Integrity commission ceases to exist
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