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Aug 29, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor;
The audience at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre went into a state of shock and disbelief after the chair of the National Toshao Council (NTC) made a public call for the president HE David Granger to investigate the IDB local office delaying, derailing and seemingly corrupting a project called the forest carbon facility project (FCPF). I understand this project was designed by the former administration to provide financial assistance and other benefits to local indigenous Amerindian communities as well as complement the government low carbon and redd+ program.
What the IDB local office under its current head has done or is doing is unacceptable and constitutes a total disrespect to President Granger and his administration, and the people of Guyana in particular our local indigenous people. For too long we take our Amerindian brothers and sisters for granted. This latest unacceptable management of funds by the IDB bureaucrats intended to the indigenous people must not be taken lightly.
This is first time in modern Guyana that a head of state has been called upon to investigate a major financial institution operating in Guyana (the IDB). The call has been made by no ordinary Guyanese but the constitutional chair of the NTC. The NTC is a legal body establishes under the law of Guyana hence the IDB action constitutes a breach of the law of Guyana and can be considered legally questionable
This is not the first call for investigation into the operations of the IDB local office. Bad mismanagement has been pointed out numerous times in the press by transparency advocates. Former President Jagdeo expressed his displeasure of LCDS funds managed by IDB being paid out without proper accountability by the IDB.
There have been many recent calls for the IDB local office to make available the names and procurement process involved in the paying of LCDS/GRIF funds by the IDB to staff of the office of climate change (OCC) post may 2015. There have been calls for IDB to justify the procurement process used to contract a school of forensic auditors to conduct audits for the government.
I believe that over G$ 50 M worth of contracts were single handily given out to those auditors by the IDB without a transparent procurement process. In addition contractors bidding for an EU/GPL/IDB project have expressed concern over the delays in awarding of the muti-million dollar contact and the IDB attempt to change the project outcome and allocations of funds.
Carl Lucas
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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