PM Hinds Parliamentary excursion takes early nose dive

by in Guyana, News
Georgetown : A motion by Guyana’s Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds, scheduled for debate this Thursday in the National Assembly will have taken a nose dive even before it has come up for debate to set sail.
The motion in the name Hinds, reportedly threatens to expose delinquent Members of Parliament (MP’s) for failing to make annual declarations to the Integrity Commission.
The commission in its current form however has been dubbed a “toothless poodle” and is non functional as has been indicated by the Secretariat of the Commission.
Executive Member of A Partnership for National Unity  Dr Rupert Roopnarine said that the coalition will not be supporting Hind’s Motion.
Dr Roopnarine informed that only recently the Coalition’s Leader, Brigadier (rtd) David Granger was in receipt of a missive from the Secretariat of the Integrity Commission.
This missive purportedly warned that should the members of APNU default on making declarations, then delinquents will have their names Gazetted and publicly exposed.
The APNU second in command informed this publication that the Opposition Leader  responded to the Secretariat and requested to know who the Chairman of that Body was and further who the commissioners were.      
He said that the coalition Leader, received a second missive from the Secretariat informing that there was no Chairman or Commissioners in place.
As such APNU’s Members of Parliament have been instructed to prepare their declarations and hold them until a Commission can be put in place to the satisfaction of the Coalition.
Dr Roopnarine said that the Commission must at the very least have forensic and investigative capabilities and not just be a body that receives reports and files them.
He said that the coalition has been drawing attention to allegations of corruption at times where fingers have been pointed at Cabinet Ministers but to date there has been no investigations of their declarations to ascertain accuracy.
Dr Roopnarine says that the party will not be making any declarations to a Commission that cannot even investigate what is has before it.