Auditor General must examine financial operations of ministries

Jan 24, 2010 News

– Corbin

Government has been providing a subsidy to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) in a most clandestine manner, said leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Mr Robert Corbin last Friday.
As a result, the party is calling for the intervention of the Auditor General (AG) into the financial operations of certain government ministries to which large sums of monies have been allocated. Corbin was at the time addressing a gathering of media operatives at the party’s weekly press briefing.
According to Corbin, it is now becoming much clearer why the Government found itself in difficulty in accounting for the G$4 billion requested in Supplementary Provision, under the guise of providing housing for Guyanese.
He explained that the ‘rookie’ Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, in his arrogance had refused to provide answers to questions in the National Assembly about the intended use of the large allocation. However, it is interesting Corbin said, that the Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, has now sought to inform the Nation that some of the $4B allocated to the Ministry of Housing will help to purchase lands from GuySuCo for house lots.
According to Corbin, the Minister’s explanation is that the monies will be used by GuySuCo to bring new and unused cane lands on the East Coast of Demerara and in Berbice to cane cultivation.
Based on the information from the Minister too, GuySuCo is requiring an urgent $10B to carry out capital works which include bringing new cane lands under cultivation which the Corporation was forced to shelve, along with many of its other plans, after finding itself in severe financial troubles last year.
It is for this reason Corbin stated that “It is now evident that the Government was providing a subsidy to GuySuCo in a most clandestine manner. If this was the intended use for the Supplementary Provision, it is difficult to understand why the Minister had difficulty in providing clear and unambiguous answers to the National Assembly.”
The party leader explained that the truth which has already been highlighted by the PNCR in the Parliament is that the Government has allocated these large resources under the Ministry of Housing so that its utilisation will be carried out without any scrutiny, at the expense of transparency and accountability.
He said that the party again calls on the Auditor General to undertake an immediate audit of the financial operations of those Ministries to which sums were unilaterally voted by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in the last sitting of the National Assembly.

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