Op­po­si­tion MP Kei­th Scot­land is rais­ing fresh con­cerns about the coun­try’s es­ca­lat­ing homi­cide rate, warn­ing that the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) has failed to curb se­ri­ous crime.

Speak­ing to re­porters out­side Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, the for­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty raised con­cerns as the mur­der toll ap­proached 100, de­spite the ex­tra­or­di­nary mea­sures im­ple­ment­ed by the Gov­ern­ment.

“I’m very con­cerned about the state of crime in the coun­try. Any ob­jec­tive analy­sis can on­ly con­clude that the State of Emer­gency has not been a suc­cess,” Scot­land stat­ed.