Georgetown : APNU+AFC expresses concerns of Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn who is quoted by sections of the media that the Opposition should refrain from approaching the High Court to seek redress for misuse of public funds.
The collation says the statement by Minister Benn is far removed from the truth, and is deliberately meant to confuse the electorate into believing that the parliamentary opposition frustrated government’s development programmes.
APNU + AFC in a statement “it was, in fact, the vulgar excesses and avenues leading to corruption that the parliamentary Opposition sought to close off during the 10th Parliament.
Critically, over 90% of all government programmes were approved in the 10th Parliament. The Coalition calls on Minister Benn to be honest in his statements and not be a stranger to the facts.
The coalition unambiguously supports every legal action taken by citizens to protect the national purse, and to save it from being misused, abused and stolen on fly-by-night projects that are designed to go nowhere. The Coalition welcomes sound investment and public works projects that are negotiated transparently, and give the best value to Guyanese citizens.
The former parliamentary parties, when in the 10th Parliament, did their constitutional duty to protect tax payers from waste and corruption that attached themselves to almost every government project of the Donald Ramotar regime.
In fact the opposite is true as it was the Attorney General who ran to the courts against the Leader of the Opposition and Speaker over twelve times in the two and half years of the 10th Parliament.
The Amaila Falls Road Project, the Marriot Hotel and the Specialty Hospital are just a few instances where precious resources have been squandered and lost due to mismanagement, graft and misguided planning.
For Benn to make his most disingenuous claim at this time, when all Guyanese can assess for themselves whether the country is getting good value for the projects that Benn and his comrades sought to foist on the Guyanese taxpayers, confirms that he, and the government, have run out of good ideas and are incapable of sensible thinking.
It is time for better governance, transparency and accountability, and these will only come when the APNU+AFC coalition is elected into office on May 11, 2015. “
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