Parliament’s special committee to investigate drugs purchases in detail

… APNU alarmed by Ministers’ cover-up of $90M storage payments

Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo

New GPC’s owner, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop

Parliament’s largest Opposition group, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) says it will be asking a special committee to investigate Government’s decision to unfairly grant one company billions of dollars in drugs contracts under unclear circumstances.
For years, one company was consistently grabbing up the contracts with other importers now breaking their silence saying that they were sidelined but will no longer keep quiet.
In early 2010, the Cabinet of Ministers, under former President Bharrat Jagdeo, made a decision to allow New GPC, a company with which he reportedly has close ties, to be granted hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts.
It was the same year that New GPC may have failed to deliver $222M in drugs.
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which examines the Auditor General’s annual report on how state funds are spent, was told last week that attempts are now being made… two years later… to determine how much drugs the New GPC did not deliver.
New GPC, through its principal, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, in recent months has attacked the independent media houses -Kaieteur News and Stabroek News. Kaieteur News, especially, has been sued several times for hundreds of millions of dollars by New GPC for questioning the contracts.