Jamaat member Clive Lancelot Small will not be challenging the ruling of Justice Rajendra Narine that he be extradited to the United States to face gun-related charges.
By Denyse RenneSpeaking with reporters after Narine?s decision, Pamela Elder SC, one of the attorneys appearing for Small, said, ?We will not be appealing the decision.
?We did not ask for a stay because he did not want to appeal. Instead he said, ?Send for the marshals.??
Elder added that Small felt the only way he would have the cloud lifted from himself and the Jamaat was if he went to the US to face the allegations.
However, a senior member of the Jamaat, Abdul Hamid, is claiming there was a lot of political interference in Small?s case and agreed his comrade should face the US courts.
?He is not getting justice in T&T and we believe that justice will be served if he goes to the US for the matter,? Hamid said.
Small, also known as Olive Enyahooma El, was indicted by a US grand jury on May 23, 2002, on charges of conspiracy to possess firearms and possession of firearms.
The charges arose out of an alleged plot in May, 2001, to import 60 AK-47 rifles and ten Mac-10 machine-guns with silencers into T&T.
A source at the Attorney General?s office said arrangements were being made to have US marshals return to Trinidad to extradite Small.
On October 5, four US marshals arrived in Trinidad by private jet after AG John Jeremie signed an order to have Small extradited to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Small was also ordered by Narine to pay costs to the State.
Costs are expected to be in the order of $300,000 and arrangements are being made to have the money collected before Small?s departure.
A source said the procedure would be to write to Small?s lawyers and ask them to arrange for the payment.
?If the payment is not made within a period of time, then we will have to levy on his business place and properties,? the source said.
