PP raped the treasury
Saturday, August 29 2015, Source
OPPOSITION People’s National Movement (PNM) political leader Dr Keith Rowley says the multi-million dollar escalation in cost of building the Motor Vehicle Authority head office in Frederick Settlement, Caroni shows, “the extent to which this Government has raped this country’s treasury.”
Addressing PNM supporters at the Massy Stores car park in St Augustine on Thursday evening, Rowley held up documents which he claimed showed the cost “shot up” from $40 million under the Manning administration in 2010 to $45 million at the start of the PP term in office.
“They (PP) would have spent $210 million by September 2014 and they need another $28 million to finish it.” The crowd later gasped in shock when Rowley said according to the “present outlook” on an updated work sheet, “Guess what the programme is going to cost us now, the whole programme...
I don’t even want to repeat this.
Total funding required for MVA programme $1,090,797,000.” “When they should have spent $339 million, they will now spend over a $1 billion if you lucky because if they come back into office...rest assured that is not going to be the final figure,” Rowley claimed. Addressing undecided voters, Rowley asked, “I want to know what is it going to take to make you decided that you’ve had enough?” Not mincing words, the PNM leader said, “If a government could have done that in its first term, and be so exposed, could you imagine what they will do in their second term?” “So the PNM says to you, we are not, as a population, without knowledge of this Government’s conduct. If we put them back into office, we are doing it with out eyes wide open,” Rowley stated.
Earlier in the evening, Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary, Orville London, assured Rowley that “Tobago gone clear”; PNM wins in the Tobago East and Tobago West seats virtually assured, making it easier for the party to win the September 7 General Election and see Rowley sworn in as the next Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
“Tobago ‘gone clear’.
Anybody who knows me will know that I’m a very conservative individual, but I’m telling Dr Rowley this evening that come election night, when he has counted 19 seats in Trinidad, let him not even call me in Tobago.
Just take out his suit, shine his shoes and tell the wife ‘Sweetheart, start packing. We changing residence’,” London said, much to the crowd’s delight.
Rowley’s too, as he was seen smiling upon hearing what London had to say.
However the THA Chief Secretary cautioned the large turnout that they alone would not be enough to secure a PNM victory on September 7.
“This is a survival election...It doesn’t matter whether you’re a long time PNM, ‘just come’ PNM, used to be UNC, it doesn’t even matter whether you’re PNM at all because the issues of this election are not just about PNM and politics.”er.”