The Bureau of Public Safety has called on the State National Defence to act swiftly in order to unravel the events and circumstances that led to the explosion of military grenades at the La Beach so as to ensure closure is brought to the matter due to the apparent weakness of the country’s law enforcement agencies.

The grenades exploded on Tuesday, 4 August 2020.

Three siblings who had gone to the beach to play got injured in the blast.

The children are between 5 and 10 years.

The military discovered more grenades when it visited the site of the incident later.

In a tstatement, the Bureau of Public Safety noted that it is “indeed worried over this development and its possible impact on public safety assurance, especially in the lead-up to election 2020.”

According to the Bureau, “With [political] vigilantism still holding a potent place in our partisan politics largely hinged on brawl for profit (aka ‘vigilantepreneurship’), and the apparent weakness of the state’s law enforcement agency in dealing swiftly and robustly with same, coupled with rogue business elements that may be acting internally and/or externally seeking to profit from a destabilised state, the National Defence must act swiftly to obtain a full appreciation of the situation and bring closure to the matter.”

The Bureau is, therefore, calling “on the government to escalate the investigation from the police CID jurisdiction to the National Defence jurisdiction for a swift and exhaustive investigations to be carried out to establish the likely motive and circumstances leading to military grade grenades appearing on our shores with less than 4 months to a presidential election.”

The Bureau also asked the following questions: “How did military-grade grenades arrive at our shores? How far can these grenades be traced? Were the grenades washed ashore or someone or a group of persons 'acting out' just dumped the grenades at the beach? Could there be more of such mass-casualty ballistics within the jurisdiction in rogue hands?”

The Bureau noted that the “National Defence must deploy intelligence beyond these investigations to secure our territorial integrity and assure the public of its safety.”

It also commended “the police service highly for its swift action in this matter and in providing information and assurances of further investigations to the public” and urged “the public to always engage the police or the Bureau of Public Safety on suspicious items, behaviours and circumstances within and outside their communities.”