I REFER to the article “Approval of $8.7B from Contingencies Fund an embarrassment…Finance Minister still personally liable for unapproved $700M-Goolsarran” in the June 24 edition of the Kaieteur News.

What caught my attention and left me baffled is the part where Goolsarran says that “the Assembly was extremely generous in approving expenditure out of the Contingencies Fund that did not meet the criteria.”
Are there not lawyers or experts in parliamentary procedure who can speak to the constitutionality of what transpires in Parliament? Is Goolsaaran somehow the only person in all of Guyana who has the knowledge and analytical know-how to determine that the expenditures presented to Parliament violates the constitution and breaches the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act of 2003? Or is Goolsarran just a bogus, illiterate, wana-be, attention seeking, self-appointed legal pretender?
I am confident all evidence demonstrate that he is the latter.
It would appear that Goolsarran has no understanding of the laws, constitution, or financial controls that govern Guyana. Yet he insists on making public pronouncements on issues he has no knowledge or understanding of. Perhaps that is why he failed as Auditor General to deliver the audited reports for the country under the PNC regime. It was until the PPP Government took office that the administration insisted on transparency and accountability and demanded that his office do its job and present the Annual Reports on the public accounts of Guyana to the National Assembly. It would appear that Goolsarran, even as Auditor General, was uneducated in his own field, and remains uneducated even now, more so in subject matters he has no familiarity with.
Secondly, the article claims that the National Assembly would have approved the expenditures with a “very heavy heart.” Is Goolsarran speaking on behalf of the PPP/C Government members of Parliament or the APNU or AFC Members of Parliament all of whom approved the $9.2B?
I was not aware that Goolsarran was a spokesperson for any MP and would have the knowledge or authority to tell the public how the MP’s felt when they voted for six, separate financial papers!
Given that all the MPs supported the bills, who exactly is Goolsarran speaking on behalf of when he says the National Assembly voted with a heavy heart?
Goolsarran needs to acknowledge that he is irrelevant, uninformed and lacks the mental and intellectual ability to understand the Laws of Guyana and parliamentary procedure, in addition to his inability to be a spokesperson for any Member of Parliament.

CURIOUS CITIZEN