This is about our money being stolen

Aug 24, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

The response by the Minister of Finance show total disregard for the Guyanese people; one hope this man will never be Minister of Foreign Affairs or be sent as an Ambassador to any country.

His political career should end now. So should the Minister of Agriculture. Both must be fired now. All Guyanese must insist on this. This is not about the PPP or the PNC. This is about our money being stolen, while pensioners are faced with getting just one good meal a day.

The engineer managing the project and the CEO of NDIA must be investigated and whatever action necessary taken. Where did this excess $50 million go? Some heads must roll. This is all wrong.

Doesn’t this so called brilliant man, the Minister of Finance have some mechanism in place whereby the person(s) managing the project in the finance or agriculture ministry, source the pump prior to advertising the work to be done. In this case the pump was the main and major expenditure. If the cost for the purchase and installation of the pump exceeds the cost of the pump by $50 million, then the bid should have been thrown out and a new tender done

This is what is done in the real world. Not the minister’s academic world. Sourcing the cost of the pump prior to advertising the work is a simple benchmark to check the tenders against. In fact this should have been done to come up with a cost proposal for this project. Is the minister then telling us that our money is spent in a willy-nilly manner, with no regard to budgeting?

Ganesh Singh

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