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No corruption in PURE—Dookeran
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Finance Minister Winston Dookeran says there is no corruption in the Programme for Upgrading Roads Efficiency (PURE) under Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner. Dookeran spoke during yesterday’s post-Cabinet news conference at the Office of the Prime Minister in St Clair. The operations of PURE were significantly reduced for the past several months while Dookeran’s ministry carried out an audit into the programme. Questioned about the audit yesterday, Dookeran said: “It mainly looked at the systemic deficiency in the system and there was need for changes to the operationalisation of the PURE.” He said there was a proposal to adjust “the entire structure for delivering expenditure in this area.”
He said that proposal was still being discussed. Asked if there was any evidence to support the claims of corruption in PURE, Dookeran said: “No, there was no such evidence in the report, it was systemic.” He said the report was internal and there was no obligation to present it in Parliament because “I don’t think it will add anything at this point.” Dookeran said in the reformulated programme, PURE would be part of the major executing agency. Asked to clarify the findings of the report, Dookeran said: “What the ministry found was that there were procedures that were not efficiently followed and as such we need to rectify that process.” He said the proposed changes were intended “to ensure that the road programme gets off the ground in a faster and more accelerated way.”
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