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A forensic audit of City Hall will reveal all the secrets

Aug 26, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
How could the Town Clerk of Georgetown have the audacity to tell the citizenry that there is no secrecy regarding the Council’s accounting system? If there is no secrecy, then why is he and others so vigorously preventing the commissioning of a deep wide ranging forensic audit of its accounting system?
If there is no secrecy, then why have they not presented their accounts for qualification by the state auditors for more than a decade now? If there is no secrecy then why aren’t all of their account holdings reflected on their financial statements? If there is no secrecy why then can’t all of their Councillors be given a copy of the crooked parking meter contract they signed with Smart City Solutions/National Parking Systems?
If there is no secrecy, why then have they not yet made public the city’s budget for 2016, when it is already August of 2016? If there is no secrecy, why then are the members of staff of the Finance Department being muzzled and prevented from speaking to the press regarding matters of considerable importance to the citizens?
If there is no secrecy, why did they so hurriedly appoint a Chairman of the Finance Committee after the Mayoral election process and stuff the committee full with old timers from the past scandalous Council? If there is no secrecy, then why the senior administrative and financial management staffers of the Council refusing to proceed on their vacation leave like everyone else has to within the municipality?
No other public organization in the whole of Guyana is less transparent, more secretive, more corrupt, and more untrustworthy than the Georgetown Municipality and yet the Town Clerk goes to the media to say they have no secrets. Wait until a forensic audit is held, then there will no doubt be the discovery of more secrets than those held by the KGB, CIA or the MI5 all together.
Debra Gibson

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