Georgetown: Some eight months (June) after President Donald Ramotar ordered an investigation into financial irregularities at the National Communication Network (NCN) and some four months (November) since the Audit firm has handed in its report, there has been no move by the Administration to ensure that those who siphoned off the company money into their personal accounts are charged, according to Alliance For Change (AFC) Member of Parliament Cathy Hughes.
“This is the highest level of executive lawlessness. The deposit of company money into personal bank accounts is not an allegation, there is evidence that this fraudulent transaction did take place. In any other society, those responsible would have been behind bars. For the President to sit on the report from the audit firm while the perpetrators are still being paid by the company or allowed to go free, places the president in a position where he is clearly condoning executive lawlessness,” the party noted. “If President Ramotar is disinclined to take action in his capacity as President, he is honour bound as Minister of Information to ensure that the state owned and government controlled NCN operates above board and in such a clear case of irregularity, he should have immediately called for those named to face the full force of the law and let the chips fall where they will
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