A former 1990 coup member and prison advocate was shot and killed at his Green Dive Diego Martin home on Friday 30th December, 2022.
• The deceased is Salim Muwakil, a member of the United Prison Movement. He was shot about the body by unknown assailants while inside his home and died at the scene late on Friday night.
• The 2013 report of the Commission of Inquiry into the 1990 attempted coup described Muwakil as being “actively involved” in a plot to assassinate the then Prime Minister ANR Robinson, and identified him as one of the Muslimeen responsible for organising explosives to destroy the old Police Headquarters on St Vincent Street, Port of Spain
On July 27, 1990, Muwakil, led by deceased Imam Yasin Abu Bakr and 70 other insurgents stormed TTT studios on Maraval Road. Muwakil was also the former head of the Jamaat’s security detail
