Opposition Leader McKeeva Bush has responded to an attack by Tourism Minister Charles Clifford.
In a statement to the Legislative Assembly on Friday, Mr. Bush claimed that in the debate on the amendment to the Firearms Law, Mr. Clifford said that the previous administration had broken the laws and that the Auditor General’s report would bear this out.
‘He further added that the community was breaking laws because the government were doing so,’ said Mr. Bush.
The Opposition Leader said the Speaker had cleared up one aspect by saying the Minister was talking about the housing audit.
‘However, we have yet to find out from the police whether, if in fact any law was broken on the housing matter,’ said Mr. Bush.
‘Cabinet did not micromanage any department or authority or other government company. The day to day affairs were left to those entities.
‘Certainly we as a Cabinet – including the Financial Secretary and Attorney General and the Chief Secretary – did not, and do not now know of any laws being broken. If we knew of any we certainly would have done something about it,’ he said.
‘The Minister of Tourism further added that laws were broken because we failed to go to the Central Tenders Committee on some matters,’ Mr. Bush told the House.
‘It has been for years, the prerogative of any authority to do projects through their own tender procedure,’ he said.
‘Cabinet has for many, many years the authority to waive central tenders requirements and have done so over many years,’ he added.
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