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Nandlall to Granger: Instead of rhetoric, start with corruption evidence against Greenidge

 

By Vanessa Narine, March 31, 2015, Source

 

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Anil Nandlall
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Anil Nandlall

“MR David Granger (Brigadier ret’d), the leader of the PNCR (People’s National Congress Reform) and APNU (A Partnership for National Unity), has said that he would like to hold inquiries into a whole host of things. He can start with Mr Greenidge and the actual evidence of corruption provided.”These were the sentiments of Attorney General and Minster of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, who dismantled a defence mounted by former finance minister, Carl Greenidge, after questions on a ‘less than transparent’ property acquisition of a house by him in 1993, were raised.

 

Carl Greenidge

Carl Greenidge

 

The questions were raised by former president, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, who, last Saturday, responded to allegations of corruption that Greenidge levelled against the People’s Progressive Party/Civic(PPP/C).


Jagdeo’s response included the production of a Transport dated January 25, 1993, which details the acquisition of a house at Bel Air Gardens for $4M, as well as references to the lack of accountability and transparency during Greenidge’s tenure as finance minister.


The former president stated too that according to the Transport, a property owned by Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) was transferred to Greenidge as ‘Minister of Finance’, months after he demitted office.


However, Greenidge maintains that there was nothing corrupt about his actions. “If Mr. Jagdeo thinks that it was corrupt he should pass the details to the DPP and the police,” he challenged, in a comment recently made public.


GLIB RESPONSE
The Attorney General charged that Greenidge’s call for the matter to be reported constitutes a “glib response” given that the allegations he himself has levelled against the PPP/C have not been reported to the police.


Nandlall said, “Over the last 22 years, the PNC has made allegations of corruption against almost every government minister, government functionary and senior officials of the state. Not once can I recall them ever making a report to the police in relation to these charges.


“They simply make these charges publicly, provide not a scintilla of evidence and repeat them ad nauseam with the hope that they become fact. Indeed, they have deluded themselves and unfortunately others with their propaganda.


“When allegations are made against Mr. Greenidge and the proof, the evidence, is actually produced, his glib response is ‘did you report it to the police’.”


The Attorney General questioned why, despite the numerous allegations, Greenidge and his colleagues in the political Opposition did not make a report to the police.


“The obvious question is why they have not reported the tons of allegations they have made of corruption over those years to the police,” he said, adding that the answer is clear – there is no evidence, only rhetoric.


PNC FACILITATED CORRUPTION

 

Opposition Leader David Granger

Opposition Leader David Granger

 

Nandlall also highlighted the fact that, like the 1993 property acquisition, the lack of accountability and transparency, during Greenidge’s tenure as finance minister, from 1980 to 1992, resulted in corrupt practices being facilitated by the PNC.


He said, “There was absolutely no defined process or procedure in relation to the disposal of assets of the State and, of course, no transparency and accountability, in respect of those transactions, which includes the very house, which is the subject of contention.


“That is why the Alesie Group of Companies was able to purchase several rice milling complexes and hundreds of acres of rice land from the confidential secretary of President Desmond Hoyte. There was absolutely no advertisement inviting other persons to submit a bid and no one knew that the assets were up for sale. Mr Greenidge was the finance minister then.”


The Attorney General was emphatic that for a man whose interest is becoming the next finance minister, if the political Opposition were to secure power, his ‘dismal’ record is his undoing.


“The truth of the matter is that Mr Greenidge never submitted an audited report for any of the years that he was a finance minister. The then auditor general, Anand Goolsaran, publicly stated that Mr Greenidge, as finance minister, instructed him not to audit certain Government agencies,” Nandlall said.


Greenidge was finance minister under the PNC administration from 1980 up to October 1992 when the ruling People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) came to power. --- By Vanessa Narine

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Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Nandlall also highlighted the fact that, like the 1993 property acquisition, the lack of accountability and transparency, during Greenidge’s tenure as finance minister, from 1980 to 1992, resulted in corrupt practices being facilitated by the PNC.

 

 

“The truth of the matter is that Mr Greenidge never submitted an audited report for any of the years that he was a finance minister. The then auditor general, Anand Goolsaran, publicly stated that Mr Greenidge, as finance minister, instructed him not to audit certain Government agencies,” Nandlall said.


Greenidge was finance minister under the PNC administration from 1980 up to October 1992 when the ruling People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) came to power.

 

Carl Greenidge

Carl Greenidge

 

Nandlall to Granger: Instead of rhetoric, start with corruption evidence against Greenidge, By Vanessa Narine, March 31, 2015, Source

FM
Originally Posted by Shaitaan:

Look PPP Antiman Brigade,

 

If the man is guilty of corruption and you have evidence, arrest him nah?

If you have evidence against any PPP member go and ask the Police to arrest them

Nehru
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by Shaitaan:

Look PPP Antiman Brigade,

 

If the man is guilty of corruption and you have evidence, arrest him nah?

If you have evidence against any PPP member go and ask the Police to arrest them

 

Well I'm not the one complaining and waving around "evidence" about Greenridge. And of all people, it's the Antiman Government doing this like they're Mark Benschop with no power except the media.

 

Ayuh juss try hard to look schupid you know.

FM

The Chat3's vulgarity and terrorism is there for all to see and he is our Chief law enforcer, and he has not lost his job.  Lucky he is not not a Minister in Trinidad.

 

The old PNC did bad, but this is a new day, and what is clear before the Guyanese people is the current sins of the PPP who made the PNC look like saints compared to the PPP that is addicted to thieving.

 

The PPP needs advanced therapy and surgery, and come May 11, they will be back to selling the mirror.

 

Do you know they sold off the Mirror building to Ed Ahamad?  So how they are going to print the Mirror after May 11?

FM
Originally Posted by Cobra:

Greenidge told us that canecutters are coolie problem and that is not racist. Our own neemakaram coolie want to put him back to bankrupt Guyana again.

 

Did all coolies take some secret Oath of Allegiance that is binding on us forever to the PPP?

 

When did this happen?

 

Do you allow PPP Ministers have conjugal rights to bang your wife on request chap?

FM

Since the days of Burnham who died over 30 years ago, Greenidge is a well respected economist internationally and worked for the ACP in a big position and brings new skills and tools.  He will do good this time around.

 

Cobra, so if Greenidge was bad under the OLD PNC and should not serve, using the same logic, why should Shaatie continue to serve when the courts ruled he spent billions illegally?  Why should this govt continue when it is not answerable to a majority opposition and is addicted to thieving?

FM
Originally Posted by Shaitaan:
Originally Posted by Cobra:

Greenidge told us that canecutters are coolie problem and that is not racist. Our own neemakaram coolie want to put him back to bankrupt Guyana again.

 

Did all coolies take some secret Oath of Allegiance that is binding on us forever to the PPP?

 

When did this happen?

 

Do you allow PPP Ministers have conjugal rights to bang your wife on request chap?

i will bang nandalall wife i will give him twine 

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Nandlall also highlighted the fact that, like the 1993 property acquisition, the lack of accountability and transparency, during Greenidge’s tenure as finance minister, from 1980 to 1992, resulted in corrupt practices being facilitated by the PNC.

 

 

“The truth of the matter is that Mr Greenidge never submitted an audited report for any of the years that he was a finance minister. The then auditor general, Anand Goolsaran, publicly stated that Mr Greenidge, as finance minister, instructed him not to audit certain Government agencies,” Nandlall said.


Greenidge was finance minister under the PNC administration from 1980 up to October 1992 when the ruling People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) came to power.

 

Carl Greenidge

Carl Greenidge

 

Nandlall to Granger: Instead of rhetoric, start with corruption evidence against Greenidge, By Vanessa Narine, March 31, 2015, Source

nandlall need not steal the tax payers money to get his wife belly big i will do it for him

FM

Mr. Nandalall has a very pretty wife.  I sat a few chairs away from her at Babu Jaan 2years ago.  She was so arrogant she did not speak to anyone around her.  She is a lawyer too.  She had a Prada bag.  I almost said, "The devil wears Prada."

FM

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