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I honestly believe that Gov’t would like to raise all the public servants’ salary

Oct 08, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
The audits are obviously proving a huge problem for the current administration. There is proof that monies were misappropriated and siphoned off by the last Government Ministers but proving who is criminally culpable for such activities is the challenge.
And what is being heartbreakingly noticed by the current leaders is the millions and billions of dollars that went into the pockets of the former ministers. The contracts, which were handed out without proper procurement oversight, were legitimately awarded, though with grossly inflated price-tags. Then significant portions of those monies were kicked back to the awarders of those contracts. Those MP’s were being rewarded for their efforts with funds coming in from multiple streams of incomes. They were raking in the dough!!! But while this is unethical, the question is: Is it criminal?
The new administration wants this practice to cease. However, the fact that one could make the kinds of money the former ministers made – with impunity – is obviously not lost on the current administrators.
So the reasoning is simple; We will stop the shenanigans, substantially raise our salaries, and the country will roll on without such raises negatively affecting the national purse.
I honestly believe that the Government would like to proportionately raise all the public servants salary. That would surely help to offset this current political fall-out. But if they substantially increase the salaries for all public servants it would hurt the national purse. So for now, the governing MP’s will take a little larger bite out of the country’s financial apple and as the tree grows, the apple will get bigger and there will be other opportunities for the rest of us to bite, later.
And don’t think that there were no calculations of the political implications of this move. Come next time you vote, your choice will be between those who took the monies ethically and those who did it unethically (or criminally). The political gamble for this administration is the hope that commonsense will prevail when that time comes.
Pastor W. P. Jeffrey

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