GOVERNMENT and the Opposition collaborated on July 27 during an extraordinary sitting of the House of Representatives to approve a motion filed by Attorney General John Jeremie for the House to acknowledge the reasons for President Christine Kangaloo declaring a state of emergency at midnight on July 17.

In moving the motion, Jeremie told MPs one of the key objectives of the SoE was to allow the security forces to disrupt the plans of people inside and outside of the prisons to execute a plan that involved the assassination of certain key officials and attacks against public institutions.

As he outlined the series of events which resulted in the declaration of a SoE, Jeremie repeated the plans of this organised crime syndicate "were not isolated but represented a structured campaign involving multiple criminal elements."