Dear Editor,

The staff Ms. Indira Anandjit had oppressed, marginalized, and discriminated against waited only one day after her departure on annual leave she had not taken since 2013 to take incriminating documents to the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs (AGMLA).The staff advised the newly appointed Minister of the public service procedures which required the matter and documents being sent to the Auditor General.

The documents showed Ms. Anandjit, the Chief Accounting Officer of the Legal Affairs Ministry, approving payments of over two and one half million dollars for Commonwealth Law Reports and over two million dollars in computer parts, but those purchases could not be found as having been received in any of the records of the Legal Affairs Ministry.

After not hearing from the Auditor General for many months, the Ministry received a purported report, which it challenged under the provisions of the Audit Act. The Report could be interpreted to mean that former President Ramotar and former AGMLA Anil Nandlall conspired to spend taxpayers’ money in the custody of the ministry to purchase the law books for Nandlall’s benefit. In the words of Sir Richard Drayton, it was a “predatory relationship seeking to strip private wealth out of state assets.”

When the Hon. Attorney General took over the office, he met staffers who greeted him with exultations of “We are free at last, free at last.”
There were many reports of Ms. Anandjit taking files and giving them to Nandlall; downloading information from the ministry’s computers and giving them to him or his driver, and suppressing documents and other information relevant to the new administration; yet the minister never dismissed her.

Ms. Anandjit did write the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, but she indicated to him that she did not want to return to the Ministry of Legal Affairs (MLA), and would like to go anywhere else. She never sought to return to the MLA, and for good reason: she was afraid of being charged for a criminal offence.

Ms. Anandjit must tell the nation whether she had left the Ministry of Tourism, GECOM and NCN under similar circumstances. The AGMLA rejects the contentions in Ms Ananjit’s letter.
Regards,
Ministry of Legal Affairs