Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Minister, Gary Griffith, says he’d be happy if the radical Muslim leader, Yasin Abu Bakr, was allowed to stay in Jamaica.
Minister Griffith hinted that even the twin island republic deems him to be an undesirable.
Minister Griffith is also dismissing what he says are ‘mischievous’ comments by Abu Bakr about him being victimized by the immigration row between T-and-T and Jamaica.
Speaking this afternoon with Nationwide News, Minister Griffith also supported the decision of the Jamaican government to spend 4-million dollars to deport Abu Bakr.
The name Yasin Abu Bakr is now synonymous with the attempted overthrow of the Trinidad and Tobago government in 1990.
Making reference to that attempted coup, Minister Griffith says Abu Bakr will always be considered a person of interest and a threat to national security.
Minister Griffith says only recently Abu Bakr suggested that he should be shot.
He says given his history, Abu Bakr could never have expected to be embraced by Jamaica.
Minister Griffith says Trinidad-and-Tobago made no attempt to have Abu Bakr returned to the country.
And Minister Griffith says while he doesn’t want to intervene in Jamaica’s domestic politics, he’d have spent the 4-million dollars to deport Abu Bakr.
Abu Bakr was last week denied entry to Jamaica because the government considers him a threat to national security.
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