Audit office can now draw $$ directly

Carl Greenidge

APNU MP Carl Greenidge last night withdrew a motion to have the Audit Office taken off the list of budget agencies, revealing that Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh had recently signed an order to make the change.

Through the motion in his name, Greenidge was also seeking to have the entity restored to an autonomous agency drawing finances directly from the Consolidated Fund.

“The motion served its purpose,” Greenidge later told Stabroek News during a parliamentary break. “To our surprise on the