Justice Minister Owen Bonnici yesterday sidestepped the question when repeatedly asked whether he trusted former acting police commissioner.

Asked several times by the Times of Malta whether he thought Mr Zammit had the integrity to head a local warden enforcement agency in view of the Mallia inquiry, Dr Bonnici said:

“I think he has the experience and the qualifications to be an agent of change.... He has the right ingredients,” he said when asked specifically whether he trusted him to fill the position of trust.

Asked again whether trustworthiness was one of the “ingredients” Mr Zammit possessed, Dr Bonnici replied he trusted the integrity of a report carried out on Mr Zammit’s conduct.

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