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A matter of integrity
DEAR EDITOR,
Kaieteur News reports on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, that “the Integrity Commission does not intend to pursue declaration of assets and liabilities from public officials which should have been made before 2018.” This report is very telling and forces you to question the integrity of the Integrity Commission.
This is not the first time that the integrity of the Integrity Commission has come into question. In March this year when the Chairman was sworn in, he said he was never interested in the position until his friend, the Prime Minister, called him, and then he decided to take up the offer. So what were Guyanese people supposed to think?
Now we read that there will be no declaration of assets of public officials for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Why is the Chairman not pushing for the declaration of assets to be made to the Integrity Commission for those three years?
It seems as if he is making excuses for public officials, especially the Coalition Government Ministers, when he talks about there not being an Integrity Commission Secretariat in place from 2015. But who disbanded the Secretariat? It was the Coalition Government who fired all the people working at the Secretariat.
Even so, the Chairman has a responsibility to the Guyanese people. There is nothing preventing him from requesting that all public officials make their declarations to the Integrity Commission for 2015 straight through to 2018. He has the power to do so.
If he fails to act, it would be an indictment on his own integrity.
Regards
Attiya Baksh
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