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Posted: Sunday 22 March, 2015 at 4:00 PM

Dr. Douglas defends visit to Prime Minister’s office

Former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas
By: Stanford Conway, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – LEADER of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas has defended his four o’clock visit to the Office of the Prime Minister on the morning after General Elections; the office he had occupied for some 20 years.

     

    Speaking on Freedom FM’s ‘Issues’ programme on Wednesday (Mar. 18), the former Prime Minister told the host, Junie Liburd, that he had a right to access his old office.

    “On the morning of the 17th I was the Prime Minister. On the morning of the 17th I was the sitting Prime Minister; had not resigned and no one had been appointed to that office. I had the right of access to that office which I occupied…I had that right!”

    Six days earlier during a Labour Party Rally at Market Street, Dr. Douglas revealed to a massive crowd of supporters that he went to his old office and removed a number of items.

    “Up to now I can’t get my personal effects. I spoke to the Commissioner of Police, CG Walwyn, the morning after the Elections. He told me: ‘Mr. Prime Minister there is no problem in you getting your personal effects.’ I said my Personal Assistant, at that time, Beverly Knights, Senior Assistant Secretary, will go and take my things out of the office.  

    “Mind you, me ain’t stupid you know! Me ain’t leave nothing down there that they looking for. They must be think me stupid. Tell them I went down there four o’clock in the morning and me tek off wha me want, but me personal effects down there still. They must be think I stupid. They think I stupid? Well who smarter than me? I have nothing down there that they looking for, so they could search up and search up and search up, they ain’t going find nothing because me no gat nothing to hide. But I want my personal effects. I want them and I must get them.”

    On publication of this statement, Dr. Douglas came in for heavy criticisms, with individuals claiming why he did not remove his personal effects at the same time.

    He however indicated during the publicly aired interview on Freedom FM that his personal effects were not removed because he wanted to avoid fingers pointing in his direction of 

    “The only reason why I left my personal effects behind is that if I were to take them, my books, flat screen TV I had there, several other things which I left…my prints of the walls, someone would have said: ‘Oh, Douglas is taking away things from Government Headquarters in some big boxes.’”

    Dr. Douglas claimed that people were present while he was in the office and stressed that they could verify what he removed from it.

    “There were people in the building. They can ask them what it is I took from there when I went there.”

    The four-term Prime Minister also provided a detailed account of what he did on Election Day and stated what he took from the office.

    “I had been on the campaign trail all day the 16th. On my way to Basseterre after visiting each of my polling stations, because I didn't even get to go to the polling stations during the actual poll, because I was too busy otherwise, so I went and visited every polling station in the evening, after they had closed in my constituency. I got into Basseterre after 8:00, I think it was. And it was while I was having dinner I was looking at the results, and then as I saw what was happening I said: ‘You know what, I have not removed my briefcase and two bags, which I normally will take home every day.’ Two bags with my personal work! And so I retrieved them.”

    Dr. Douglas then asked: “What the heck could I have in the briefcase except my personal things? What government files? I wasn't running any illegal outfit to hide with files. That makes any sense to anybody?”

     
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