THREE MINISTERS SUMMONED before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigating a special audit of the state-owned housing agency failed to show up yesterday.
Neither Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler nor the present Minister of Housing and Lands, Denis Kellman, nor previous Minister of Housing Michael Lashley, who is now Minister of Transport and Works, was present when the PAC convened yesterday.
The three had been summoned but only Sinckler responded by sending a letter from his lawyer disputing the authority of the PAC to conduct such a hearing into the Government’s action on two housing ventures. There was reportedly no word from Kellman or Lashley.
The committee is attempting to probe Auditor General Leigh Trotman’s special audit of the National Housing Corporation in which he contended there were a number of financial anomalies regarding the Valery and Grotto projects. (AC)
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