Lawyer files assault charges against Regional Chairman’s wife

Charrandass Persaud, Attorney-at-Law of Canefield, Canje has moved to the courts and has filed

Attorney-at-law Charrandass Persaud

assault charges against Shabana Mustapha, wife of the former Region Six Chairman, Zulfikar Mustapha. The duo will appear at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for the first hearing.
Persaud is alleging that Mustapha was the woman who slapped him in front of hundreds gathered in the crowd at a Diwali programme held on October 24, 2011 at the Canje Welfare Ground. Persaud was perturbed over the political sentiments being echoed by the various speakers at the event and, apparently, shouted to the speakers on the stage to stop spewing political garbage at a religious event.
Mr Persaud said that he became irate after Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, was on the stage urging the crowd to “vote PPP” and saying, “I bring you greetings from the President and incoming President, Donald Ramotar”.
“Right away, he went on to talk about the good things the PPP is doing and even asked the people to give them another term in office,” Persaud told Kaieteur News.
Persaud said that he became angry and shouted out to Dr Singh on stage. “Don’t talk politics; talk religion’, and this lady beside me cuff me in my face. It wasn’t a cuff that hurt.”
“Right away, he cut his speech off and I walked away”. He said that another man might have retaliated against the woman but he walked quietly away. He said that it was the wife of the former Chairman who performed the act. The then Region Six Chairman had refuted all of Persaud’s claims when contacted by this newspaper.
Persaud noted that the police have since refused to charge Mustapha since “she was the Chairman’s wife” but now she is the ex- chairman’s wife.

Defendant: Shabana Mustapha

On Wednesday, Attorney-at-Law Kumar Dorasami will represent Persaud while Mustapha will be represented by Adrian Anamayah. Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo will preside over the proceedings.