Samaroo’s dad says Sealy a ‘good woman’; calls for resignation of officials

An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

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The fa­ther of Joshua Sama­roo is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tions of the Prime Min­is­ter, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter over what he al­leged was a cov­er-up by the po­lice to pro­tect those re­spon­si­ble for his son’s death.

Sama­roo al­so de­fend­ed his son’s part­ner, Ka­ia Sealy, say­ing she was a “good woman.”

Even as his son con­tin­ues to be la­belled a gun deal­er and drug traf­fick­er by an un­for­giv­ing pub­lic, Christo­pher Sama­roo is deny­ing al­le­ga­tions that his son was in­volved in that kind of life.

He chal­lenged the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), among oth­ers, to “come with every­thing you have.”

He called for the res­ig­na­tions of of­fi­cials whom he al­leged were in­volved in what he al­leged was a cov­er-up.

“I don’t know my son to be that kind of per­son, so that is shock­ing to me.”

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at his at­tor­ney Criston Williams’ of­fice in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Sama­roo de­mand­ed, “I call for the res­ig­na­tion of the Prime Min­is­ter; she should step down. I call for the res­ig­na­tion of the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty. I call for the res­ig­na­tion of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er.”

“And I call for the res­ig­na­tion of all who is in­volved in this, that is try­ing to cov­er it up, wher­ev­er they are,” he claimed.

Sama­roo in­sist­ed that his son and daugh­ter-in-law, Ka­ia Sealy, were de­cent, law-abid­ing cit­i­zens. He said he would con­tin­ue to stand with her de­spite the pub­lic de­mon­i­sa­tion she had been sub­ject­ed to.

Last Fri­day, Sama­roo and his daugh­ter, Chris­tine, told Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk that they had changed their opin­ion of Sealy af­ter their at­tor­ney ex­plained the like­ly mean­ing of the charges to be laid against her—manslaugh­ter and shoot­ing with in­tent.

Sama­roo said in the ar­ti­cle pub­lished in the Sun­day Guardian, “Though what I am hear­ing is not what I want to hear, I have to go with what he’s say­ing…As much as I don’t like what I am hear­ing, I have to go with what I’m hear­ing be­cause the truth can be of­fen­sive.”

But yes­ter­day he in­sist­ed, “I have no prob­lem with Ka­ia.” Sama­roo de­fend­ed her, “I have a prob­lem with peo­ple say­ing a lot of things about her.”

He claimed there was a plan un­der­way by the “oth­er side” which was, “Try­ing to dirty her wa­ter.”

Sama­roo re­it­er­at­ed, “She is a good woman. She has in­tegri­ty. She has a child.”

“All that has been said oth­er­wise is hog­wash.”

Sama­roo al­so de­nounced an ar­ti­cle pub­lished in an­oth­er dai­ly news­pa­per yes­ter­day. Sama­roo said he did not be­lieve for one mo­ment that the young cou­ple were crim­i­nals, and he ques­tioned why it had tak­en the po­lice four months be­fore claim­ing that a gun had been re­cov­ered in the car.

“They had am­ple time to do every­thing that they want­ed to do, but the whole point is that they should have done that at the point and time when the crash took place. Why wait three or four months lat­er to do this? This goes to show that they were neg­li­gent at the scene,” he claimed.