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Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan, who is the line min­is­ter for Plipde­co, has ac­cused the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ prospec­tive can­di­date for Barataria/San Juan and in­cum­bent MP Sad­dam Ho­sein of pounc­ing on an “in­no­cent act of re­ward and recog­ni­tion” by call­ing for a probe in­to the com­pa­ny’s pur­chase of 18 tick­ets cost­ing $20,000 for the PNM’s Red Car­ni­val fete.

Dur­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ meet­ing in Tu­na­puna on Thurs­day evening, Ho­sein read out the memo which was signed by Plipde­co’s act­ing pres­i­dent Cur­tis Den­nie. Ho­sein showed the Feb­ru­ary 24 memo signed by Den­nie and called for ex­pla­na­tions from Plipde­co as well as from Sinanan - the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment deputy leader.

The memo stat­ed Den­nie’s re­quest for fund­ing for the type of tick­ets (six gen­er­al tick­ets cost­ing $400 each) and 12 VIP tick­ets (cost­ing $1,500 each). The memo stat­ed, “Kind­ly arrange for the cash/cheque to be made avail­able and payable to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).”