Auditor General completes audit of facility
…report to be submitted “shortly” – AG
Auditor General Deodat Sharma has completed the audit into the controversial rehabilitation of the Ocean View Hotel to act as a COVID-19 facility and has revealed that the report will be submitted to Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony in a matter of days.
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The audit commenced last week, according to Minister Anthony, and came after it was revealed that some $1.6 billion was spent by the former Government to refurbish the facility which is a skeleton of what it should be.
“From the financial and audit perspective, the Auditor General sent a team to Ocean View and they spent an entire day there trying to see what is going on. All the documents that the Auditor General has requested that has been given to him so that they will be able to do a proper report and present to us so that we can decide the way forward so.
“If these sums of money we’re told were spent on the building, then the Guyanese public deserves to know what it was actually spent on. $1.6 billion is a lot of money and therefore people deserve to know and the only way we can know that is to have the Auditor General and his team do that type of audit and present those results to us,” Minister Anthony said during his appearance on the programme “Government in Focus”.
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Deodat Sharma