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Is Peeping Tom out to lunch?

Jul 23, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Is Peeping Tom [PT] out to lunch?
Something is clearly amiss in the commentary on “The Missing Assets” in your July 20th 2015 publication. PT seems to think that it is more going after individuals than missing property. Totally askew!
The setting up of a ‘State Assets Recovery Unit’ is not an unusual occurrence when there is a change in government, the moreso in Guyana which has a high rating on the corruption scale published worldwide.
This Unit has started off with a good sincere serious request with open amnesty.
PT scoffs at this act and at the Unit…..”Why was it necessary to offer an amnesty?” “What assets is the Unit going after?”, “Who are the persons working in this unit’. “The Unit is based on an assumption”.
Pure empty mouthings.
The amnesty offer has strong attributes: own up now or face the consequences later.
The Unit has an unenviable job that can go on for a long time, as they are an extension of the forensic audits going on. As acquisitions of assets are identified, utilization and maintenance can be traced and if no longer in use or existence, circumstances of disposition can be examined. The lead personnel in this are the forensic auditors with the Unit wrapping up the search and identification. In my opinion PT does not understand this process.
Next PT rambles on to bribery and a whole diatribe of a bribe not being a recoverable asset of the state. Who does not understand what a bribe is? Why does PT think that part of the Unit’s work is to recover bribes?
As I said above, something is clearly amiss in PT’s commentary on “The Missing Assets”.
Maybe lunch was not satisfying.
Carl Veecock

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