Nigel Hinds should return the money he earned from the State

Mar 01, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is the findings of the audits that Nigel Hinds participated as an auditor which have shown the necessity for the establishment, as he puts it, of a so called “apparatus of anti-corruption” units. Nigel Hinds it is the conclusions of you and others which have established the foundation for the establishment of the anti-corruption units. If all of you now feel that your findings were wrong say so and give back the money you were paid. You cannot have your cake and eat it.
While I will ignore for the moment Mr. Hinds erroneous attacks on the WPA and his crazy suggestion that the state assets recovery process should start from 1968 and include election rigging, I am not inclined to let him get away with his ridiculous insinuations in relation to Professor Clive Thomas, a true Guyanese patriot who, with little or no concern for material gains, is giving his all to help build a new Guyana for future generations.
Nigel Hinds wrote, “The positions Dr. Clive Thomas has been assigned post-May 2015 elections are multiple: 1) Presidential Advisor,2) Head of SARU, 3) Chairman of Guysuco and, 4) Commissioner on the Guysuco Commission of Inquiry. Dr. Thomas is now deeply comfortably entrenched in the bosom of the APNU/AFC government “. Readers will note this is a line of attack being directed to Professor Thomas by a set of persons who among other things, envy his ability, his honesty, his integrity and not least of all, his much vaunted local, regional and international reputation.
They fear his presence in SARU soon to become SARA, because they know none of them can approach him with an offer not to do his work. There is information out there that a lot of them, who in their professional pursuit have acquired untold millions, have dirty hands. Yet they dare to attack someone whose character is unblemished. I wish to say that Professor Clive Thomas in pursuit of all the work which he has undertaken on behalf of the coalition government since his appointment in June 2015 is the recipient of a single salary (not four as some may wish to imply) as Head of SARU and all the other positions he has been appointed to, he served free of charge. And his salary, given his responsibilities, is modest. If Thomas is politically comfortable in the government it is because he and the WPA have earned it given our history of struggle and the role we played in bringing about political change.
Mr. Mike Rahman in an email reminded me that Mr. Nigel Hinds was contracted by the government to do the Forensic Audit on the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB). Rahman, a former member of the GRDB Board of Directors, a political activist and a knowledgeable rice farmer, expressed the view that Nigel Hinds, the Auditor, did not do a pleasing job (to Rahaman) in his examination into the affairs of GRDB.
I am not surprised by this information given the views he stated in his letters and the dislike he has for the government. In reflecting on this matter I am forced to ask whether the government went after Mr. Hinds to do the Audit of the GRDB or he actively canvassed for the contract. However he came by the contract and given his views that the Forensic Audits are a waste of tax payers’ money and they are having negative effects on the economy and country – Why did he allow himself to be drawn into this useless endeavor? To all appearances the money aspect seems to have overridden any principle which he may want to claim he possesses.
I conclude by making this point: while my comrade and friend David Hinds chose to be polite in his polemics with Mr. Nigel Hinds and attributed his missives as unintentionally giving the PPP a pass, I submit that the evidence in the letters undoubtedly tells a different story i.e. Nigel Hind’s intent as expressed in those letters was unambiguous.
Tacuma Ogunseye

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