Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has re­ject­ed claims of a cov­er-up as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the po­lice killing of Joshua Sama­roo and shoot­ing of his com­mon-law wife Ka­ia Sealy, say­ing au­thor­i­ties must be al­lowed to com­plete their work and “let the chips fall where they may.”

Alexan­der made the com­ment yes­ter­day, in re­sponse to sus­tained pub­lic anger fol­low­ing the Jan­u­ary 20 in­ci­dent, which has fu­elled re­newed dis­trust in the po­lice ser­vice and prompt­ed calls for Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to step down and ac­count­abil­i­ty at the high­est lev­els in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

Ad­dress­ing re­porters at a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress me­dia brief­ing at its Ch­agua­nas head­quar­ters, Alexan­der said Gue­var­ro has giv­en a time­line for the com­ple­tion of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion and con­firmed once the file is fi­nalised, it will like­ly be sub­mit­ted to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP). Gov­ern­ment, he added, will abide by what­ev­er de­ci­sion is tak­en.