The public should be clamouring for this!

Jul 16, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

The consequential orders issued by the CCJ on the matters of the NCM and Gecom chair had one thing in common that the general public scarcely paid attention to. On three occasions it was dictated that the Attorney General paid costs.
I would not want to think that the CCJ failed to mention the value of these costs. I would rather suspect that the media, caught in the mindset of the general populace, failed to give the value of these costs, because they too dismissed these costs as routine State expenses.
As a people, we will never have accountable governance if we do not struggle to have separation of government from state. How long shall we sit in silence and watch Governments spend state resources wastefully in the furtherance of their own political parties’ interest and not the State and people as it should rightly be.
The amounts were not mentioned, but I suspect the total will run into millions.
I would hope that these monies are not to be paid from the state’s coffers but rather from the Attorney General’s own pocket or his governing political party, which he advised to remain in power without seeking a fresh mandate from the electorate after the Government had fallen on a No Confidence Motion (NCM).
The state’s coffers should never be burdened with debts incurred by an AG, who unadvisedly attacked the most sacred organ of the state – the Constitution.
There had been cases where former AG’s were taken to court for industrial disputes that were unavoidable and were ordered to pay court cost and compensation in the past. It is understandable that state funds were used to pay those costs and compensation because those exploits or transgressions had occurred in furtherance of the state’s interest – trying to collect revenues or denying some litigant who wants to collect from the state.
In my opinion, these recent matters – the NCM and Gecom chair – were taken to the CCJ as a result of dereliction of duty, and not in the state’s interest. This selfish advice and actions in the interest of a political party remaining in power unconstitutionally should not be paid for by state funds. The public should be clamouring for this.
Rudolph Singh

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