In our column of 23 January 2017, we had stated that the Cabinet erred in assigning the transactions audit of NICIL to the Auditor General because the latter had given a “clean bill of health” on the accounts of NICIL for the years in question. It has been more than a year since the audit was handed to the Auditor General, but little or no progress has been made so far. The Auditor General contended that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) was holding up the audit since it had not released certain files to him. This claim was
