JAMAICA - Member of Parliament for St Andrew South East, the People’s National Party’s Julian Robinson is rejecting suggestions that the abduction of a well-known scrutineer ...
in the constituency was politically motivated. Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) scrutineer Lorna “Nikki” Robertson was abducted on Old Hope Road, in the vicinity of the Diabetes Association of Jamaica, on May 30 by men driving a van with fake license plates.
“They’re trying to insinuate and suggest that it is politics that is behind it. I knew Nikki very well and I won’t go into all the things but I had a close relationship with her,” Robinson said while speaking at the Trafalgar annual divisional meeting held at Gaystead High School last Sunday. He continued: “I hope that she will be returned safely because the reality is in Swallowfield, labourite and PNP get along very well without any hostility, without any argument. Even though people have their own preferences, that is how we have existed within Swallowfield.”
The MP maintained there was absolutely no involvement in the abduction by himself or the People’s National Party. “The people know me— my name can’t call in certain things because I lead and I represent with integrity— so I don’t want any man suggest that PNP is dealing with those things, because the PNP no deal with that in this constituency!”
Robinson described the nature of the missing scrutineer’s relationship in the community in which she lived. “Nikki had friends, probably more friends, who are supporters of the People’s National Party than those from the Labour Party. Nikki moved through the entire community and interacted with everybody and nobody never had no problem with Nikki. So I don’t know why somebody is going to try to inject politics into it now,” he said.
Police investigations are ongoing into the kidnapping. “We are continuing to do our work but people might be seeking relevance so they might try to create a narrative about politics involved in this and that. I hope and I wish that Nikki will be returned. The Friday that she was abducted, I went to her house the same day. I’ve spoken to her daughter and I hope that she will be returned,” Robinson stressed. (Jamaica Observer/ Garfield Robinson)
