In the Sunday Guardian of today (22nd May, 2022) the Acting Commissioner of Police is reported as saying that he only got a copy of the Sabga report on Thursday last (19th May, 2022) and that his "investigation" has begun and he has ordered it to take place within a very short time - three months or less!! To which I can only say a loud 'WHAT'? Three months to "investigate" this report is a reasonable and short time? Before I start to curse, tell me, does anybody reading this believe that children are STILL being abused? Or do you think that the abuse has stopped?
If (like me) you still believe that children are being abused, do you believe that we should have to wait for another three months for Mr. Jacob to complete his "investigation"? Do you believe that anything will come out of this "investigation"? Do you think that anybody of any significance is going to go to jail for his/her part in this scandal? Or do you believe that Mr. Jacob is simply kicking the can down the road in the hope that it will simply go away as so many scandals have done before? Do you, for example, think that it was reasonable for the Acting CoP to receive the Sabga report only on Thursday 19th May when the scandal erupted with an Express newspaper report some four days earlier on Sunday 15th May? Who was supposed to send it to him? And why did it take FOUR days to be sent? Is this what we call in this country "acting with dispatch"?
Why does everybody that I talk to believe that nothing will happen? Why does everybody that I talk to believe that the abuse of children is still going on in these homes? Why is the Acting CoP dragging his heels over this one? In any case, why is this 25 year old report now being "investigated", seemingly for the first time, by the police? Why?
There are too many questions and too many obvious 'cover-ups'. But nobody is asking the hard questions. I guess they just don't want the hard answers. So Trinidad & Tobago will continue with no accountability for or by the well-connected. And nobody will be blamed for anything. And as for the children? Well, they simply will never get justice in this life. You can be sure of that!
Very good questions.
ReplyDeleteThe only time a bad government will do anything is good is when they are afraid. Sadly, there is no one this government is afraid of.