Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner is likely to be hauled before the UNC’s disciplinary committee next week despite being spared by the National Executive (Natex) on Wednesday.

The Executive decided that Tabaquite MP Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and Mayaro MP Winston ’Gypsy’ Peters would be sent to the same committee.

However, Warner was spared because of his willingness to meet with the Executive as stated in his letter to them.

Acting general secretary Glenn Ramadharsingh yesterday wrote to Warner stating that the Executive would meet with him next Thursday for him to respond to the 25 charges laid against him and to explain his conduct and whether it warrants that he too be sent to the disciplinary committee.

The letter noted that it was the third time that Warner had refused to attend hearings on the matter and requested that he may also submit his response in writing.

In response, Warner indicated: ’Please be advised that I shall not be attending the enquiry to which you refer until and unless the various matters re my response to the Natex for which I have requested clarification and answers have been met.’

These were the same concerns raised by Maharaj and Peters when they requested documents be provided to them pertaining to the charges and also questioned why similar action was not taken against Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday when criminal charges were laid against him.

A release from Maharaj’s office stated that the Executive made its decision ’although it refused to give him particulars of the alleged disciplinary charges in order for him to properly and adequately respond to the alleged disciplinary charges’.

The release noted that when Panday was charged with the criminal offences of sexual misconduct in 1994, he went throughout the country condemning the prosecution for not giving him particulars of the criminal charges to properly defend himself and as his lawyer Maharaj got two of Panday’s criminal charges dismissed because no particulars were supplied to him.

’Mr Maharaj is of the view that Mr Panday and the entire Executive should instead be disciplined. They are the ones who are bringing the party into disrepute. Mr Maharaj has no doubt that the membership of the party would ultimately discipline them and would move a motion of no confidence in them,’ stated the release.