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Apr 09, 2012 News
….present records or conduct inquiry – Greenidge
“If (Bharrat) Jagdeo knew and was so confident that (AG Anand) Goolsaran was being denied his power, why didn’t he show the evidence?” — Greenidge
A Partnership For National Unity’s (APNU) spokesman on Finance, Carl Greenidge, has launched a battle to clear his name as it relates to the accountability of the PNCR regime on the nation’s finances under his tenure.
Greenidge has tabled a motion calling on the administration to make available the Parliamentary records, which he says would vindicate his position.
The motion which is dated March 26, seeks to have the National Assembly instruct that action be taken to ensure that the full records for the period January, 1985 to December, 1992 are submitted as early as possible or within two months of the motion being published.
Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo, have been extremely critical of Greenidge’s record as Finance Minister.
Greenidge in his motion said “if these documents cannot be found or have been destroyed, the Speaker is to institute an enquiry into the said disappearance or destruction of those records and report the findings to the National Assembly within one month after the tabling of this motion.”
According to Greenidge, the motion takes cognizance that the “Official Reports (Hansard) for the period January, 1985 to December, 1992 are the records of the decisions pertaining to the management and debates over the Economic Recovery Programme and other critical decisions in the management of the political economy of Guyana.”
Greenidge had recently broken his silence on the matter and had strong words for the administration, saying that “if they believe” that he had breached the financial regulations in any way then they can move to prosecute him.
The Parliamentary records that Greenidge is hunting will reportedly clear his name on the allegations that the PPP/C officials have been laying at his feet as it relates to his “unaccountability” during his time in Office.
Greenidge recently made a damning revelation that when the PPP took office in 1992, several years of Parliamentary Hansards vanished, and the completed audit reports, which they had in their possession, were never laid in Parliament.
Speaking about his record as Finance Minister and the repeated claims that he was unaccountable, Greenidge said that it must first be understood that when he took office as Minister of Finance, the Auditor General’s reports were already behind. He inherited a backlog.
“They were years behind when I arrived as a Minister.”
The former Finance Minister explained that when he took office, Desmond Hoyte and the then Auditor General, Pat Farnum, were already in advanced discussions on bringing the reports up to date.
He explained that Farnum “took the trouble to write me a long memo over what has to be done.”
One of the reasons for the backlog stemmed from the accounting procedures, such as with the case of gold sold overseas.
He explained that payments were made to overseas Embassies and that the country was already too cash strapped to send auditors to the various missions overseas.
“It is absolutely untrue to which I left them when the PPP came into Office,” insists Greenidge. The question as to why the completed reports were never laid in Parliament should not be put to him, he said. He said that just as the way the Hansard, which records the deliberations and actions taken in the House for the period 1985-1992 vanished, “those audits were never laid.”
Greenidge said that “it has served the PPP very well for the audits not to be completed because the party has been able to use that as a whip.”
Greenidge said that he is in possession of correspondence where he had reprimanded former Auditor General Goolsaran He said that all of this occurred at a time “when you have individuals including Mr. (Bharrat) Jagdeo who was fighting Asgar Ally for the position of Minister of Finance and therefore doing things in relation to our reports that would put them in a good light versus Asgar Ally.”
“If Jagdeo knew and was so confident that Goolsaran was being denied his power, why didn’t he show the evidence?”
Greenidge insists that he at no point in time sought to obstruct or instruct the Auditor General at the time to do anything contrary to the law but rather to seek advice from the then Attorney General.
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