THE People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is disgruntled over the use of Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram and former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran by the Government to carry out forensic audits on some 40 entities of state and government agencies.

During a press conference held at Freedom House yesterday, former Attorney General Anil Nandlall told the media that the party has no confidence that the findings of Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram and former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran would be objective.
“The two gentlemen had, almost on a daily basis, criticised the PPP/C while in government for its management of the economy, which they believe was laced with corruption and fraudulent practices,” he noted.
“Look at who they choose to do these audits, two sidekicks of theirs,” Nandlall said, as he dismissed the audits to be carried out by Ram and Goolsarran as being tainted with bias.
“An audit as I understand [it] is an objective forensic analysis of the financial systems and how it works and how monies were spent. I cannot be persuaded that Christopher Ram and Anand Goolsarran can ever bring an objective mind to bear on this process,” Nandlall said.
Nandlall charged the APNU+AFC government to also carry out forensic audits at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), where he noted that “he believes the biggest electoral fraud took place and that was during the May 11, 2015 elections.” He stressed that the APNU+AFC had led the country to believe that there was mammoth corruption in the then PPP/C government, but says their resort to these audits clearly shows that the corruption never existed.
The APNU+AFC (A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change) government when it took office a month ago announced that it is their intention to audit more than 30 agencies and examine projects and funds initiated by the former PPP/C government. Among the agencies to be audited are the Guyana Revenue Authority, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).