Prime Minister Oduber denies intention to move anybody
A.M. Digital
11/11/2005

Prime Minister Oduber denied that he expressed to be in favor of firing the top of the Public Prosecutor’s Department or anybody of the investigating team of the Natalee Holloway case.

Oduber said that he trusts that everybody understands Papiamento, especially those in Parliament, because what he said was that if the United States Government and the Twitty and Holloway families do not have confidence in a member of the investigating team, then it must be possible to replace such an official. He never expressed any intention to fire anybody. According to Oduber one person is not more important than the livelihood of 100,000; than a 2 million florin economy; and than 8,000 hotel rooms. That is what he said and was supported by father Rudy Lampe.

Oduber flatly denied having any intentions to fire anybody. When this is all over he does want an investigation to take place by amongst others Judge Bob Wit and other experts in international law to exactly tell us all the details of the investigation in this case.

If at some point in time for the sake of the investigation somebody has to be moved, it has to be done, there’s nothing wrong with that, according to Oduber. This has nothing to do with giving in to the pressure of the US Government.

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