The letter to the editor of the Guardian by Justice Sebastian Ventour in response to last Sunday's editorial has highlighted a possible weakness in the various processes used by successive presidents (Richards and Carmona) to vet possible appointees to the Integrity Commission.
Justice Ventour confessed last week that he had omitted to tell President Carmona that he had outstanding judgments to deliver as a High Court judge and that he was not aware that he would have to resign from the commission in order to deliver those judgments.
It is also apparent that President Carmona did not bother to ask Justice Ventour whether he had any outstanding judgments to deliver. In such a situation of "not asking and omitting to tell," an embarrassment was waiting to happen again to a commission whose track record is abysmal when it comes to the sustainability of office-holders.In the space of five years between February 2009 and March 2014, there have been 12 resignations from the commission and one suspension.
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