ESC head begs for time to deal with son’s murder

Anna-Lisa Paul

Senior Reporter

anna-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

After one of her sons was gunned down outside his brother’s house in Laventille on Wednesday, executive chair of the Emancipation Support Committee (ESC), Zakiya Uzoma-Wadada, yesterday appealed for time before she makes any public statements about the murder.

Kwesi Wadada, 42, of Gloster Lodge Road, Belmont, was shot several times outside his brother’s home at Rudolph Charles Link Road, Laventille at 3.20 pm. Wadada was employed with the Forestry Division in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Police said Wadada was ambushed by a gunman as he sat in the driver’s seat of his silver Nissan Wingroad. He was found slumped face down across the front passenger seat.

Approximately 20 spent 9 mm shells, four live 9 mm rounds, a projectile and two fragments were collected at the scene.

After identifying her son’s body at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday, the ESC head asked for time and space for the grieving family.

In an interview with another daily newspaper in August 2024, Uzoma-Wadada expressed concern that the root causes of crime and criminality were not being adequately addressed.

“If you are living in a society and 80 to 90 per cent of that particular population are the ones who are imprisoned in a society, something is wrong. Not only with the people who are committing the thing, but it is what is happening in the society that is creating an environment that facilitates that kind of behaviour and interaction between people,” she had said then.

Uzoma-Wadada said the violence manifesting among Afro-Trinidadians was not the only violence that existed, but was the most visible and added, “Gang violence is not limited to T&T.”

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