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Guyana got value for money with forensic audits –Junior Finance Minister
…But expresses disappointment with some of the auditors’ failure to “call a spade, a spade”
Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma
By Kiana Wilburg
Regardless of what the critics might say, Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma, insists that Guyana got value for the money expended on the forensic audits which have been completed and published thus far.
He made this statement during an interview, yesterday. Sharma stated however that when he examines some of the forensic audits he is not particularly satisfied in every case.
The Junior Finance Minister made it clear that he has no intention of pointing fingers at any particular auditor but stressed that in some instances, he felt that the auditors were not being forthright in “calling a spade, a spade.”
Sharma, who is in charge of the forensic audits, said, “When I look at the reports, some of the auditors seem skeptical to state the naked truth and by that I mean that they appeared to be hesitant in saying exactly who is at fault and who really breached the laws and where the corruption was actually born.”
The Junior Finance Minister said, “Some of the audits are not ‘forensic’ and as such, only scratched the surface of the corruption it alluded to. They did not go in depth as I would have hoped they would. But then to be fair to the auditors, some of them did report to me that they experienced difficulty in accessing information to do their work.”
The politician said that he did not get the impression that some of the contracted auditors went above and beyond to unearth the rank corruption it hinted at in some cases.
“So in some areas, the audits came over as superfi
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