‘No part in plot’
PORT-OF-SPAIN – Fuad Abu Bakr, Political Leader of the New National Vision (NNV) and son of 1990 attempted coup leader Yasin Abu Bakr, has categorically denied any link between his party and five persons who were arrested after police unearthed a plot to disrupt the 2010 general election.Abu Bakr was responding to the detention of five suspects last Thursday at a house at McKenzie Drive, Point Cumana, Carenage in which police allegedly found a deadly AK-47 rifle, ammunition and T-shirts belonging to the NNV.Last Friday at an emergency press conference, Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert stated that police had information that there was a plot by certain people to disrupt the elections.He said their information led them to a house where they arrested five suspects.But, in a press release issued late on Friday night, Abu Bakr said his party had no connection with the detained persons or any alleged plot to destabilise the country during the election proceedings, describing the incident as a “timely political ploy to discredit the party (NNV)”.Describing the discovery of the gun, ammunition and NNV jerseys as alarming and “coming at a very convenient time for the NNV opponents”, Abu Bakr said: “We certainly have no desire or intent to disrupt this coming election given our excellent progress.”The suspects are expected to be charged with possession of a gun and ammunition and appear before a Port of Spain magistrate today. (Trinidad Express)