Attorney General Anand Ramlogan told the Senate Wednesday former minister of state in the National Security Ministry, Donna Cox, used prisoners to do landscaping at her private residence.
He was speaking on an opposition motion to take note of the strengths and deficiencies of the T&T Police Service and their impact in the fight against crime.
Ramlogan accused the former government of using the State’s resources as if it belonged to them.
He stated that officials of the Prisons Service complained that they were forced to go to Cox's home to do landscaping. Ramlogan went further and provided the names of the prisoners and the date on which they went to Cox’s residence to do the landscaping:
- Tuesday October 5, 2011—The prisoners: Carl Lau, Dexter Burnett, Leon Jackson and Sheldon David
- The prisons officer: W Phillip
- Approving officer: Prison supervisor Andrews
Ramlogan said the prison record showed the activity as "a community support event."
He demanded an explanation: “Why were prisoners under the guard of prison officers cutting her lawn and the fence in her private residence?”
In her defence, Cox accused Ramlogan on trying to shift the focus away from the the lease of a light plane by the police for nearly one million dollars.
She said citizens are not concerned about who cleaned her lawn but how the government is spending tax money.
She said citizens are not concerned about who cleaned her lawn but how the government is spending tax money.
Cox added that many other citizens had the benfit of the service that Ramlogan described. “There is a long list of people who were given that service,” Cox insisted. She insisted that she has not done "anything corrupt or unusual.”
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