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OAS visit to Guyana …We’re prepared to hand over dossiers on corruption – AFC

Sep 27, 2013 News

 
Leader of the Alliance for Change Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that his party would be more than willing to meet with the team from the Organization of American States (OAS) that is expected to arrive in Guyana next month to investigate corruption.
Ramjattan disclosed that his party intends to give the OAS team several dossiers in connection with corruption that it (AFC) has discovered over the years.  He said that with all that has been happening with the Marriott Hotel and the bypassing of National Assembly – giving out so much money without approval for its construction – the party is excited to meet with the team.
Ramjattan further noted that the AFC would also be discussing the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), which conveniently is a public corporation company when it has to get tax exemptions, but is private company when it has to invest in big projects like the Marriott Hotel.
Ramjattan said that the AFC also has a dossier on the Auditor General’s Report and all the information that speaks of continuous corruption, both at the regional and national level. He said that they several documents which were done by internal auditors from NDIA and which highlighted several noteworthy discrepancies.
Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, during his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing had disclosed that, “The site visit is intended to provide the OAS with a much broader perspective than a site visit ideally provides on the anti-corruption legislative, judicial and administrative dimensions in Guyana.” This is the first such visit to Guyana.
He said that national oversight bodies such as Parliament and the Director of Public Prosecutions would be approached, be actively involved, and dominant in their engagement with the OAS.
Luncheon stressed that the OAS would be here to do a site visit and not to promote the creation or filling of constitutional vacancies. “They are here to engage the existing bodies that are involved in these governance activities; that are involved in addressing oversight issues.”

 

 

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