Moonilal warns public servants about illegal election spending

Roodal Moonilal told opposition supporters Monday their presence in Felicity reminds him of the birth of the United National Congress 22 years when thousands stood in the rain and mud to herald change and the dawn of a new political era in Trinidad and Tobago.

He implored everyone to vote for change on May 24 and make Kamla Persad-Bissessar the country's new prime minister. And he said once they do it, "PNM never coming back!"

He spoke about the failure of the Manning government to manage the country's water resources despite spending more than $300 million on the Water and Sewerage Authority.

Moonilal said the reason we don't have water is because when they came into power they fired the most competent managers and hired a CEO for $100,000 a month who turned out to be incompetent.

He suggested that Prime Minister Patrick Manning is hypocritical for criticising the UNC government for building a desalination plant yet in the 2008 budget, the PNM government pledged to build not one by five desal plants in the country.

Moonilal also pledged that a new government will audit expenditure during the month of April 2010 and warned that anyone who is found to have broken the law by assisting the government with illegal expenses will have to pay the consequences.