Gov’t challenge to no-confidence motion is abuse of court – Williams

Anil Nandlall

Attorney General Anil Nandlall’s challenge of the passage of a no-confidence against Home Minister Clement Rohee is another abuse of the court process, APNU MP Basil Williams says, while noting that the National Assembly has the power to have the minister removed.

“It appears that every time the PPP/C loses a vote in the National Assembly, the AG will seek recourse to the court, despite clear, pellucid and transparent previous rulings of the [Chief Justice] Ian Chang, that in the absence of a constitutional or statutory breach, the courts have no jurisdiction to interfere with proceedings of Parliament under the doctrine of separation of powers,” Williams said at an APNU press conference held at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition yesterday.

“AG Nandlall’s latest motion against the Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier David Granger, and the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, contending that the motion of no-confidence against Minister Rohee is unconstitutional, null, void and in breach of the doctrine of separation of powers is