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Rohee cannot prevent $90M audit

March 19, 2012 | By | Filed Under News 

 

 

- Auditor General

During a recent barrage of impromptu questions in the National Assembly by Volda Lawrence of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee dismissed the need for an audit into the $90M allocated to the Guyana Police Force, but the Auditor General says ‘not so fast.’


This publication spoke with the Auditor General Deodat Sharma who says that he has every intention of probing the allocation which has garnered a significant amount of attention recently and further asserted that the Home Affairs Minister cannot prevent him from conducting an audit into how the funds were disbursed and utilized.


The Auditor General says that he is empowered by the laws of Guyana to conduct such audits and that the Home Affairs Minister cannot prevent this.
Sharma did say that he has taken no umbrage to the statements by the Minister, saying he took it to mean that Rohee was opining that the opposition might have been satisfied with his explanations of how the money was utilized.

Auditor General Deodat Sharma

 

Nonetheless, Sharma says that he and his team are currently conducting audits of the 2011 expenditures and he has already indicated that he has set his sights on the $90M which has been causing so much controversy recently.


The Auditor General opined that the probe of $90M should not take too long and assured that the uncovering of any malfeasance will lead to a full scale police investigation aimed at prosecution.


Sharma said that he is cognizant of the fact that it would be a situation of asking the police to investigate police.

Sharma said that with the laws on his side he can conduct an in-depth examination of the money, while promising he will be thoroughly scrutinizing the money trail.

 

Albert, one of the scurilous monkeys missing from Monkey mountain.

Mitwah

At a press conference held recently at the Pegasus hotel to address the ‘Kaieteur News’ contentions that former President Bharrat Jagdeo had sold massive areas of land in a “secret deal”, Glenn Lall, who ‘poped’ an event to which he had not been invited, but in recognition that very substantial advertising revenues that keep him living in luxury comes from the very company that he had so wantonly maligned, barefacedly tried to play “reporter” – a job that is beyond the scope of anyone mentally challenged, and questioned the Ansa McAl executives in efforts to prove the latest of the unending lies that his newspaper propagate and perpetuate.

FM

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