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Chauffeur’s arrest sparks rumour of Corbin’s detention
… PNCR leader says scenario may have been orchestrated to cause confusion
Mark McKenzie, Robert Corbin’s chauffeur, was yesterday arrested, detained for about 90 minutes at the Brickdam Police Station and released on $5,000 bail. He had been using, without lawful permission, a noisy instrument to announce a protest march and rally scheduled for today.
The fact that McKenzie was at the time driving Corbin’s vehicle may have sparked a rumour that Corbin himself was arrested and detained, thus prompting several supporters to show up at the Brickdam Police Station. And for hours the rumour persisted.
Corbin hosted an impromptu press conference yesterday, at the PNCR headquarters, Congress Place, in the wake of the rumours to clear the air. He also used the opportunity to express his concern at the speed with which the rumour was disseminated and suggested that it might have been orchestrated to cause confusion.
Pic: The rumor that the PNCR Leader had been arrested and detained prompted several suppoters to show up at the Brickdam Police Station
Speaking to media operatives yesterday, McKenzie confirmed his arrest, noting that he was placed on bail after the intervention of Attorney-at-Law and PNCR Member of Parliament, Basil Williams.
According to McKenzie, whilst in the vicinity of Pete’s Video Club on George Street, Werk-en-Rust, yesterday, a traffic rank approached him and told him that he was instructed to take him (McKenzie) to the police station.
He said that within a short time of him being instructed to head to Brickdam Police Station scores of heavily armed ranks of the Quick Reaction Group descended on the scene. At the same time, another traffic rank came to him and said that he was instructed to take him to the police station and the Commander had sent someone to chauffeur the vehicle.
He was subsequently allowed to drive Corbin’s vehicle to the station.
While at the Brickdam Station, McKenzie said that he was first taken to the Traffic Department where the ranks said that they did not have anything to do with the matter and asked that he be taken to the enquires department.
McKenzie said that he was subsequently asked for the permit that allowed him to use the loud hailer; he said that he told them that the permit is usually lodged at the PNCR headquarters.
He added that a Sergeant subsequently came and informed him that he had committed a breach of the law, that he had caused a noise nuisance.
McKenzie said that the sergeant then proceeded to put him on recognizance (bail) when he was told by other ranks presents that the order for the detention had come from the “commander upstairs.”
He was subsequently asked to turn over his assets then placed in the Brickdam lockups until he was subsequently released on bail.
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