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DNA: Scandals in the Bahamas Continue…Have you had ENOUGH?
By Branville McCartney, Leader, Democratic National Alliance (DNA)
May 11, 2016 - 7:27:14 PM
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 Recently we have seen, because of the inept governance of this administration and the previous one, where Bahamians and their off springs will have to pay back monies that were stolen from the public purse.
$47 million dollars have gone missing from The Road Traffic Department and the only thing the good Minister of Transport can say is to blame the former administration, the FNM. This Minister however has been the Minister of Transport for 9 years out of the last 14 years! And more particularly for the last 4 years! Blaming the former administration is a sad excuse. The PLP is the government and as this Minister use to loudly say to the then government when she was in opposition, “Fix it”!
The Minister of Transport has promised a police probe into the Department but can we honestly expect anything to come out of this? Last summer, the good Minister confirmed that the police had been asked to probe the findings of a damning report into the Post Office Savings Bank, with the Minister sighting a “radical shift” in oversight being needed. At the time, $750,000.00 had disappeared from the Post Office Savings Bank. To date, the Government has been quiet as a church mouse with regards to that police probe. Why??
Last year, we were informed that a total of $10million went missing from the Public Health Authority from the last administration, the FNM. Again, todate nothing has been done with regards to having this money repaid or determining who are the culprits!
Two weeks ago another scandal broke but this time in relation to the Department of Social Services. The Auditor General and his team slammed the Department of Social Services for “gross negligence” in allowing $4.237 million to be paid to suppliers without proper authorization, exposing it to potential fraud and corruption.
The dump in New Providence continues to burn notwithstanding the fact that the FNM government in 1999 was given a $33.5 million grant from the IDB to develop a Waste Management Program. The monies were received by the then government but nothing was done…period! The Auditor General indicated that fraud was involved in relation to the expenditure of this money. We, the Bahamian people, have repaid $15million of the grant to date, and there is no Waste Management Program and the dump continues to burn!! I cry shame!
When are we as a people going to say Enough is Enough! We, the Bahamian people, are the ones paying for all of this misappropriation of funds. Our children will also have to pay! We, as Bahamians, are suffering day in and day out! But yet we accept this foolishness! The reality is that if we had good governance with proper checks and balances in our system of governance and on our political leaders we would not be in this mess. Indeed, VAT would not have been necessary if we had a government that did not allow corruption to flourish. I blame the PLP and the FNM and I have had ENOUGH!
We deserve better!
Branville McCartney
DNA Leader
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