There appears to be a consensus in Government that the Bahamian people are mushrooms and are kept in the dark about information they should know, according to St. Margaret Member of Parliament Pierre Dupuch.
“A mushroom, in order to make it grow, is kept in the dark and fed cow-dung. It appears as though this is happening today, but I want to remind everybody in this house that Bahamian people are not mushrooms,” he told the House of Assembly on Wednesday.
Mr. Dupuch’s said “all hell broke loose” in the capital on Tuesday when law enforcement and security officials were taken in by a plane crash hoax. He said that for all of those people to show up on the scene of a reported crash, and for there to be several eyewitness accounts, there had to be some truth to a crash.
“Finally at 5 p.m. somebody said that it was a flare, but the Bahamian people are not mushrooms and want answers. They don’t want to hear foolishness,” said the MP.
“As a Bahamian, I would like to know what it was and I would much prefer people saying to me ‘look, we were doing a test at AUTEC and there was an accident. One of the missiles got away from us and when it went over the sea, we blew it up and it came down and consequently we are doing something about seeing that there are no further accidents like that.’ This is what I, as a Bahamian would like to see,” he said.
Mr. Dupuch said the government should insist on finding out whether the so-called flare from a gun was really a flare. “We are not mushrooms and we do not live in the dark. We are also prosperous enough to have full stomachs and do not need their cow manure,” he said.
Minister of National Security Cynthia Pratt said she does not know what was in the sky. She said she got a call that something that “appeared” to be a plane crashed in a ball of smoke.
“Of course, this was echoed to all of the persons who should have been told and when the police went out, they kept contact with me, letting me know that they had not seen anything and they were still investigating, but found nothing. There were persons who said they saw, while some said that they heard. At present, as much as we know, there was nothing confirmed of a plane crash, but we are continuing our investigations,” she said.
By Tamara McKenzie, The Nassau Guardian
