Georgetown: “We feel that (Winston) Brassington knows everything…A to Z about all the transactions,” said Chairman of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan, as he sounded a warning that controversial figure could be subpoenaed to appear before the Parliamentary Economic Sector Committee.
Ramjattan says that the AFC will pursue this course of action even as reports surface that Brassington has resigned as Executive Director of the National Investment and Commercial Investments Ltd. (NICIL) and since taken up the head position of a private consultancy.
According to Ramjattan even with the recent resignation, the AFC is determined to see an investigation at the level of the Economic Sector Committee into everything that NICIL has done over a five-year period.
“We would like him to be subpoenaed… we have very big concerns because we now realize what NICIL has done is in breach of a lot of the laws and financial regulations and here the big man himself (Brassington) is resigning.”
Brassington, Ramjattan speculated, was the “Chief Architect of them” and he ought to be there to answer questions.
Ramjattan told media operatives that “I rather suspect that desertion from NICIL now, does not mean that he can’t be held accountable or at least provide information for an investigation.”
The AFC Chairman highlighted his suspicion that the move by Brassington to resign at this juncture could perhaps mean that he cannot be subpoenaed but “I am interpreting the regulation somewhat differently that he can be…So if you all feel that he is going to get away from scrutiny we feel that we can drag him in before that Committee or at least we can have whoever his successor will be or those other officials so that NICIL can at least be in a position to be scrutinized very thoroughly.”
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