Two FIFA Officials Are Suspended; Jack Warner and Mohammed Bin Hamman!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/sports/soccer/two-fifa-officials-suspended-panel-clears-blatter.html?hp

As a person with legal back-ground, “everyone is presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty.” However, the scandal surrounding Mr. Jack Warner seems to be “evidential facts,” on his supposed wrongdoings.

There is an actual “witness” that gave testimony that Mr. Warner sold him 850 tickets with a face value of 82,500 Euros, but he paid Mr. Warner 232,000 Euros. In this regard Mr. Warner is not the only person in FIFA that is being investigated and now has to answer to the Ethics Commission in Zurich, Switzerland.

It is a “fact” that FIFA is in deep and unforgiving waters in a maze of scandals that spans the Globe and would have to be sorted out by the World Body of FIFA and the International Olympics Committee. However, Mr. Warner in defending himself in Parliament comes across like he is the victim that is being victimized, when he may very well be one of the many perpetrators intertwined and entwined in FIFA’s scandalous tumult.

Apart from the FIFA scandal there are other troubling matters as it relates to Mr. Warner in the assignments for construction and developments in Trinidad. When you are being accused by one, two or three people that is one thing, but to be plagued with unethical and corrupt behavior for a decade plus, I don’t see how such a person should be allowed to continue as the Works and Transportation Minister.

In the run up to the General Election in 2010, the then Candidate Kamla Persad constantly repeated – “If you do the crime you would do the time.” What has happened since she became Prime Minister, Kamla Persad?

Ish and Steve is still walking around, Clico Executives are living comfortable lives, and in the final analysis, not one person have been charged or arrested for all of the wrongdoings that left thousands of people almost broke or bankrupt.

It is only three months since the Egyptian uprising brought down Hosni Mubarak, but, at this present moment, Mr. Mubarak and his two sons are incarcerated and are awaiting trial for murder and corruption of State Funds. The Interior Minister and the Housing Minister were tried, found guilty and sentence to five years each in Prison.

My question is why it is that since May 25^th 2010 when The People Partnership assumed power and one year later; nothing has been done when it comes to “White Collar Crime?” Around the world Trinidad is at the top of the list for the highest rate of murder per capita. We are also at the top of the list for child mortality, and when it comes to corruption, we outpace almost every other Nation.

Is it possible that the Politicians at the very top at one time or another or on an ongoing basis have dipped their hand in the Cookie-Jar of the Tax Payers money?

Sheriff G Ali