TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: Former Home Minister Ravi Naik Tuesday said he is awaiting the House Committee to table its report on drug nexus at the ensuing State Legislative Assembly session next month.
“Once the report is submitted to the Speaker or on the floor of the House, it would be made public. I am waiting for this day,” he said while speaking to Herald.
The State Legislative Assembly appointed committee, probing the nexus between politicians-police and drug peddlers, has allegedly found involvement of politicians. Committee chairman Francisco Mickky Pacheco is optimistic of tabling the report during the Assembly Session beginning from October 9.
“I don’t want to make any statement before I table the report but I don’t deny there is a serious involvement,” Pacheco had said at a press conference last weekend.
Ravi Naik refused to comment further saying it would be breach of privilege.
He has meanwhile rubbished allegations by Swedish model Lucky Farmhouse and Fiona Mackeown Devon mother of Scarlett Keeling about the involvement of his son Roy into the drug nexus.
“I don’t know who she is,” he replied, when asked about Farmhouse, the whistleblower who exposed the lethal nexus in 2010 which led to the arrests of alleged drug peddlers and several tainted policemen.
Naik said the case was ‘planned’ by his political rivals to defeat him in the 2012 general elections. “It was like match-fixing. They (referring to his opponents without detailing them) were afraid of me. They wanted to target me, defeat me. It was a conspiracy against me,” he said. “Since the beginning of my political career neither me nor my sons have any cases…”
