Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says his con­cerns sur­round­ing the Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter are not about the in­de­pen­dence of the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), but about what he de­scribed as a cul­ture of se­cre­cy sur­round­ing pub­lic of­fice.

Gon­za­les’ com­ments came af­ter Sama­roo’s fam­i­ly’s at­tor­ney, Criston J Williams, moved yes­ter­day to clar­i­fy re­marks urg­ing the pub­lic to “trust the process.”

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Williams re­ject­ed claims that his com­ments were “rep­re­hen­si­ble” and in­sist­ed his re­marks had been mis­un­der­stood.