A coordinator and a supervisor attached to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) are among several persons who were this week sent on leave while an investigation is underway into alleged financial mismanagement.
Reports are that several persons were sent home this week after close to $210M could not be accounted for by the accounting unit of the NDIA, following a recent audit. The persons in question worked within the Community Drainage and Irrigation Project (CDIP) of the NDIA, which addresses drainage issues across the country.
However, head of the NDIA Lionel Wordsworth told Stabroek News last evening said that workers were sent on
