TWO MORE GOVERNMENT ministers are refusing to appear before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) probe of the financial operations of the state-owned National Housing Corporation (NHC).
An attorney for Minister of Housing and Lands Denis Kellman and his predecessor Michael Lashley has sent letters to the PAC questioning its power and informing it that they would not be attending.
The NHC has been the focus of a recent special audit by Auditor General Leigh Trotman, who blasted the business practices of Government’s principal housing agency.
Kellman and Lashley, now the Minister of Transport and Works, joined Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler, who had sent in a similar letter rejecting the power of the PAC to summon him to such a sitting. (AC)
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