How has our nation benefitted from not improving procurement legislation? Is this coincidence or deliberate planning? Are all of the special purpose companies still not procuring in the same manner as they did under the mystified Calder Hart?After spending years criticising Calder Hart with us on his evening programme, The Power Drive, could Anil Roberts now speak out on this issue?With spending gone wild, who has benefited from the fact that procurement legislation has not in any way changed under this govt?
Our question still stands and we would really appreciate if all of the supporters of our government would sit up and think about a responsible answer.How has our nation benefited from not improving procurement legislation?At the end of the day, there is no sustainability if the treasury is haemorrhaging with every billion spent. And it is!Could our Prime Minister come forward and account on this critical matter.
1. After four long years, what has been done to prepare and lay this critical and promised legislation?
2. Will the PP now rush this procurement legislation as we near election?
3. Will it be passed in time or not?
4. Who is to be held accountable for this legislative fiasco?
5. Will it, in this sunset hour, now be debated and sent to special committee after special committee, like so many before it, on the eve of elections, and then never passed?
6. If the PNM wins, does anyone expect this legislation to be passed, which in effect stitches up the same haemorrhage which all of the silk-suited politicians have benefited from?
7. Have the PP and its leadership deliberately betrayed the population with this legislative promise?
8. What pressure can be brought to bear on the PP so that they do what they say, now?
9. Noting that Dr Rowley is not reported to have complained about this legislative delay in procurement legislation, what can we expect from his party if they win?
Gary Aboud
FFOS