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All PPP MPs to declare assets to Integrity Commission by Nov. 12 – Jagdeo
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo has promised that all of the party’s Members of Parliament (MPs) will declare their assets to the Integrity Commission by November 12, the day for Local Government Elections (LGE).
Jagdeo disclosed yesterday that he declared his assets to the Commission two weeks after he admitted to Kaieteur News that he had not done so.
“I have to check now how many have managed, but definitely before Local Government Elections that all of our members of Parliaments would have submitted their statements to the Integrity Commission,” Jagdeo stated.
Jagdeo had previously fixated on whether the Government members had declared their assets. Jagdeo expressed the view that the Commission should also examine previous years, including the three years dating back to 2015 when the Coalition Government came to power.
However, the Commission is moving forward and not going back.
Last month, the Commission disclosed that 1296 letters were sent to public officers who are mandated to file their declarations with the Commission on or before June 30, each year.
The Commission indicated then that it had received 248 responses and only some MPs have responded. The response rate at the time was 19 percent.
Under the law, any public officer who fails to comply with the Commission is liable upon summary conviction, to a fine of $25,000 and to imprisonment for not less than six months or more than one year.
Public officers including the President, Permanent Secretaries, Director of Public Prosecutions, Auditor General, Commissioner of Police, the Army Chief, Heads of the Service Commissions, Foreign Affairs officials, Judges and Magistrates and Department Heads are required to declare their assets.
Also required to submit declaration forms of their earnings and gifts received are Regional Executive Officers, the Chief Elections Officer, Mayors, Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers of state companies, Registrars of Lands and the Commissioner-General of Guyana Revenue Authority, along with Presidential Advisors, and Heads of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and Guyana Forestry Commission.
Public officers are also required to operate within the Integrity Commission (Amendment of the Code of Conduct) Order 2017, which addresses, frontally, matters relating to discrimination, bribes, conflict of interest, handling of classified information, use of public property and sexual misconduct, among others.
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