Dear Editor
TAX Payers continue to ask questions about Mike Brasse supplies to GECOM from 1994 to 2015. The focal point of discussions: Was he connected to the political elite of the day? For the records, the People Progressive Party never objected to any request GECOM recommended for Cabinet’s approval. After the 2006 elections, the minutes of GECOM’s statutory commissoners’ meetings will reveal that the PPP commission members, the late Keshev (Bud) Mangal, Mahmood Shaw and Moen Mc Doom, recommended that GECOM should boycott all transactions with Mike Brasse but those recommendations fell on deaf ears.
The then Chief Elections Officer, Gocool Boodoo, who was GECOM’s accounting officer, continued to transact business with Mike Brasse through his companies: Brassonics, Tristar, Mtech Business Solutions and Mobile Authority. Please note that all of these companies are connected to Mike Brasse. The situation got so out of hand, that the President of the day, Bharrat Jagdeo, mentioned in 2010 that he was gravely concerned about the number of single-sourcing that Mr. Boodoo is recommending to Cabinet for approval.
For the records, the radios were granted Cabinet’s approval two days before the 2015 elections. The company approved was Mike Brasse’s Mobile Authority. Rewind to 2008, the Auditor General aborted a Forensic Audit after twenty four million (24,000,000) was expended on Okidata Toners. The company under investigation was Mobile Authority owned by Mike Brasse. The Auditor General’s complaint was that one of the quotations that GECOM used in its summary of quotes was fake. He complained that the place cannot be located by visit or by telephone. But unlike 2015, Mr. Deodat Sharma failed to recommend police charges. Was he acting on orders from New Garden Street or he’s a fan of the pop group, The Eagles’ 1970’s hit song ‘New Kid in Town’? There’s a popular verse in that song, ‘Johnny come lately’. Would Glen Lall and the Kaieteur News take a walk down memory lane? I do not want to repeat what Christopher Ram wrote about Mr. Deodat Sharma’s performance as Auditor General.
Regards
Concerned GECOM staff