Government wanted to misuse funds without real oversight - PNCR

Government wanted to misuse funds without real oversight – PNCR

Oct 30, 2009 News

The real reason behind the British decision to pull the funds (G$1.6B) that was to finance the Security Sector Reform Programme (SSRP) was because the administration wanted to misuse the funds without any real oversight.
This is according to People’s National Congress Reform Chief whip Lance E. Carberry during the party’s weekly press update at its headquarters, Congress Place.
According to Carberry, the administration “as they have done on several previous occasions with donor funds, having secured the British loan in principle, sought every means to avoid their obligations and to be in a position to misuse those funds without any real oversight.”
He stated that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) ensured that the established Parliamentary Committee was restricted in its role to only receiving reports and stubbornly resisted any arrangement where the donor could verify that the funds were being spent in the manner approved. “It is evident that the British were not hood winked.”
According to Carberry, contrary to the propaganda being churned out from the Office of the President, the cancellation of the fund for the security sector project by the British is the result of bad faith on the part of the Bharrat Jagdeo Administration and its failure to ensure genuine stakeholder consultation as agreed; its failure to ensure genuine Parliamentary oversight and its refusal to agree to a management model that would ensure transparency in the application of the funds by the donor.
He said that his party is not surprised at the recent development and had over the last year raised questions about the delay in the release of funds by the donor.
Carberry also chided the administration for what he called convenient consultations.
He said that as late as October 8, last, the party reminded the nation of “the PPP/C’s 17 years of villification, non-consultation and deception” where consultation was being used as a convenience whenever the Administration finds itself in difficulty.
“In that statement, the Party specifically referred to the sham consultation by the PPP on the Security Sector Reform Plan…For example, perfunctory consultations were only evident when the crime spree and security situation reached alarming proportions with the massacre at Lusignan and Bartica. Civil society who had been hoodwinked into the belief that Jagdeo was serious soon realized that they were pawns in Jagdeo’s political game of convenience…These consultations came to an abrupt end after the PPP were able to make political mileage of the event in a Parliamentary debate.”
According to Carberry, the world is now aware that President Jagdeo’s speeches to the Parliament and elsewhere about regular consultation are mere rhetoric.
“The record of the PPP/C, with respect to Public Consultation, has been driven and informed by the hard-core PPP commitment to the philosophy of Democratic Centralism…The result has been characterised by chicanery, bad faith, and a contemptuous disregard for the views of the public, particularly those perceived not to share the views of the Administration.”
Carberry accused the administration of resorting to a convoluted form of Public Consultation primarily to satisfy the conditionality imposed by donors or to diffuse tensions with the Opposition, without any genuine commitment to the process.
He added also that the methodology of the ruling administration has been to provide the public with very vague, fuzzy and often convoluted notification of the matter for consultation.
“For example, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), etc, and then to mount a major Public Relations blitz while proceeding to solicit predetermined responses from selected cohorts, rather than encouraging genuine participation by the public…A poll of the public would reveal that, after several years of so-called consultation on the PRSP, most members of the public still do not know what the acronym means…The same applies to now in vogue Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS)…What does it mean?”

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