Ed­u­ca­tion Fa­cil­i­ties Com­pa­ny (EF­CL) chair­man Ronald Phillip says, in an in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, he ex­pects to be ap­point­ed chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM), Phillip con­firmed he was among five peo­ple who were short­list­ed for the job and was tipped to be the suc­cess­ful can­di­date. "I was in­ter­viewed and at the end of it I scored the high­est and I was giv­en the nod," Phillip said. "My un­der­stand­ing is that the board cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly gave me the ma­jor­i­ty sup­port," he added.

He said he was con­cerned about a re­port­ed move by Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter Stephen Cadiz to meet with the NFM board this week to dis­cuss the CEO ap­point­ment. He said he did not un­der­stand why a min­is­ter would want to in­ter­vene in the process. "If the out­come is that I do not get it, then some­body will have to tell me why," he said. Phillip said the PP Gov­ern­ment had cam­paigned against cor­rup­tion. He said he was not en­gaged in cor­rup­tion and if any­one had ev­i­dence of cor­rup­tion he should make it pub­lic.