Dear Editor
IS the question of transparency and accountability at GECOM really a focus point for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic?
Since the 2001 General Elections, the Auditor General’s office has zeroed in on GECOM suspicious transactions with Mike Brasse, but the AG Office refused to conduct a Forensic Audit. Gocool Boodhoo, who was Assistant Chief Elections Officer got appointed as Chief Elections Officer. More allegations of corruption, GECOM purchased $25,000,000 worth of janitorial items at exorbitant prices from Mike Brasse’s company, Tri Star, which was never registered at the Deeds Registry. The business registration that Mike Brasse provided to GECOM was proven by the Audit Office as fake, but again the AG office failed to call a Forensic Audit.
In 2008, the Audit Office started a Forensic Audit of $24, 000.000 expended for OKIDATA Toners. Fake quotations were allegedly submitted because the company could not be located by visits or phones. The audit was suddenly halted. In 2009, the present PPP commissioner Bibi Shaddick publicly criticised the accounting officer Boodhoo, after a public accounts meeting. In 2010, then President Bharrat Jagdeo raised concerns about the accounting officer Boodhoo’s regular submissions of single-sourcing for cabinet approval. All these are matters that ought to be investigated
Regards
Former GECOM employee