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| – GrangerA partnership of National Unity (APNU) has said that contrary to what Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon announced about APNU’s support of the Alliance for Change’s (AFC) position that a Public Procurement Commission (PPC) must be established before the Anti Money Laundering and Countering of Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) bill is supported, is not the same position APNU shares.Opposition leader David Granger at his press briefing on Friday, said that while the establishment of the PPC is important, it is not a concern that his party shares at this time, more so with respect to tying it with the passing of the AML legislation.“The concerns about the Public Procurement Act have nothing to do with APNU at this point in time or our attitude towards the AML/CFT Bill.APNU does not see the need for the PPC to be established before the passing of the AML legislation, since the party believes that there is no connection between the two.Granger said, “They are two different matters, there is no nexus between the two,Chile Soccer Jersey, we want a good anti-money laundering Bill and whether or not the Public Procurement Commission comes along is a different matter and we will deal with that when the time comes” Granger posited.According to the Opposition Leader, “Right now our focus is on ensuring that the people of this country get AML legislation which will actually prevent the laundering of money and the enforcement to go with that.“Right now we have no confidence that the bill as it stands should be approved and that is why we recommended that it go in a special committee in the first place.”The Alliance for Change (AFC) position is that for them to assent or give support to the AML/CFT bill, a Public Procurement Commission must be established, since they both operate synonymously.That party’s position is that you can’t have a money laundering legislation passed without having the PPC established, since most of the money is laundered through corrupt public contracts that Government has power and control over.The PPC, an independent autonomous body which is constitutionally mandated, is needed to go along with the money laundering legislation, said the AFC.AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan said, “While anti-money laundering measures are needed, passing the Bill without having the Procurement Commission in place is akin to locking the barn door while the fattest pig is still out in the yard.”Leader of AFC Khemraj RamjattanLeader of the Alliance for Change Khemraj Ramjattan during his recent press briefing articulated that “in direct and indirect ways, the absence of the PPC has resulted in why so much substandard infrastructure work has been done regionally and nationally, why public servants and workers generally cannot have better wages and salaries, and why a sultanate of extremely rich persons has been created.”According to Ramjattan, “People want us to pass the AML Bill without the Procurement Commission. He said two of them came to my chambers to offer monies to me personally to have it passed without the Procurement Commission pleading that I change my position.“I literally had to chase them out my office. That is not how Ramjattan operates or how any leader operates in the Alliance for Change.”The AFC leader made his position clear that his party will only support the AML/CFT Bill if the PPC is established as it was intended to be without the amendment that the government wants to make which would place power back into the hands of Cabinet to have control over large contracts.“Guyanese are entitled to and must have both the Public Procurement Commission and Anti Money Laundering legislation. One is not enough,” he pronounced. |
