‘He Has No Other Option’: MP Joe Giglio Calls For Resignation Of Minister Byron Camilleri
Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has “no other option but to resign”, PN MP and home affairs spokesperson Joe Giglio has said following the conviction of former prison director Robert Brincau.
“When the prison director was prosecuted, the PN had called for his suspension as the case was ongoing but Minister Byron Camilleri responded that he doesn’t want to create a vacuum in the prison leadership,” Giglio said today. “It was as though he wanted to make us believe that no one else was capable of occupying the role, even temporarily.”
Giglio warned that Camilleri’s decision not to suspend Brincau helped foster a consequence-free culture, promote impunity and increase national security risks.
“The greatest certificate that Minister Byron Camilleri is not fit for purpose was given by the Prime Minister himself when he admitted that he doesn’t feel comfortable letting his daughter walk by herself through Valletta,” he said, echoing statements that his PN colleague Adrian Delia and former PN MP Jason Azzopardi had made earlier today.
“The minister’s inability can also be seen in the demotivated police force, the lack of direction in the AFM and the collapse of systems within Identity Malta. There is no other option left for him other than to resign or be replaced.”
Brincau was today handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for three years, after a court found him guilty of threatening a man with a gun during an argument at Għadira Bay last summer.
Brincau promptly resigned as prison director and was replaced by Christopher Siegersma, who previously occupied the role of Commissioner for the Welfare and Development of Prisoners.
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