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Ramjattan awaiting Hansard to file statement
In his attempt to what he calls properly preparing for the case he plans to be the chief witness against Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali, Alliance For Change Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan says that he is currently awaiting the Parliamentary Hansard of last Monday’s sitting.
The Hansard is the verbatim transcripts of the utterances in the House during a sitting and is usually released between three to seven days after the session.
According to Ramjattan, he is hoping that this could be fast tracked so that he could prepare his statement and have the attorneys file for charges to be laid.
Ramjattan had initially said that he would be piloting the charges but on Tuesday related to this newspaper that he was persuaded not to pursue the matter as an attorney but rather the chief witness.
He is seeking to have the Prime Minister and Housing and Water Minister, prosecuted for an alleged breach of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act.
The saga started in the National Assembly when according to Ramjattan, the Prime Minister and Ali failed miserably to explain the breaches.
Ramjattan said that he will also be going after the Public Service Minister, given that she had spent monies in October and was supposed to have reported back to the house on the very next sitting but did not do so until last Monday.
Ramjattan said that her excuses in the House on Monday were flimsy to say the least, adding that the Public Service Minister had adequate time to report the spending, coupled with the fact that she knew about the need for the expenditure for a long time before it was necessary and as such did not need to have a supplementary provision.
Only recently, the AFC leader Raphael Trotman had called for the DPP Office to be more vigilant and proactive in pursuit of prosecuting public officials that misuse taxpayers’ money.
According to Trotman, the DPP is independent of the state and must be able to investigate breaches of the law wherever they occur and prosecute.
For 2009 the Government sought a total of six supplementary provisions in addition to the $126B budget and this has attracted a lot of criticism from all of the major opposition parties.
Only recently, Opposition leader Robert Corbin had chided Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh.
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