Centtral Kingstown MP Major St Clair Leacock, the prospective Minister of National Security, has made clear his intention to start policing alleged corruption from the very first hour and will be seeking to arrest those found to be involved, should his New Democratic Party (NDP) win the upcoming general elections.
Leacock, who lost his post at the state-owned power company, Vinlec, following the defeat at the polls by the current ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) in to March 2001 general elections made his intention public as he addressed a political rally at Sion Hill held for the re-opening of the party’s East Kingstown election campaign office last Saturday night.
Leacock appealed to his leader, Dr Godwin Friday to have him sworn in to office at the earliest so he could pursue his intention.
“Dr. Friday, in the normal course of things, when a government win election, after you sway the Prime Minister, the next person you’re going to sway is the Attorney General.I beg you to please sway me as Minister of National Security. I want to be on the job from the first hour. From the first hour that we win,” Leacock told Friday.
“Because, when they come and they play the ass, they gone. Swear me in please.”
Leacock said the New Democratic Party takes seriously and solemnly the pledge that it gave to the people that “life gets better the day” they vote the New Democratic Party in to office.
“I was saying that it’s bad, but somebody told me ‘don’t talk about lock them up again.’ Because, what happened, it’s since I go and make that statement, they tekking things faster than before. So, if we’re not careful, by election, nothing go dey left to tek.
“Is bare stupidness and corruption going on in government. The money moving fast, fast, fast, fast. But this New Democratic Party will bring back accountability to the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines,” Leacock said.
The Central Kingstown MP nd NDP vice president said he wanted to make the point that, as Minister of National Security, he understands the first order of the day, “to improve national security is to improve your financial and economic security.”
“If you have work, you have opportunity, and the family sees that they can see their headway, you are likely to live a better life unless tempted to go away from the straight and the narrow. We will make this country a country of second chances. Because it’s not all the time you’re able to hold the rope the first time, the second time, or the third time,” he stated, touching on the issue of crime.
Leacock said that in this political campaign, he has “a most serious responsibility as an elder statesman in the New Democratic Party, and that responsibility is to bring his wisdom to bear on how the party goes forward in serving the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
“I also have a responsibility to look to my left, to look to my right. and look among the men that I have and to feel happy and proud about it that Dr Friday has an excellent team of future leaders in the new democratic party,” Leacock said.
