About a week ago, the ruling party placed an advertisement in the Kaieteur News highlighting an article in the Guyana Chronicle dating back to November 1992. In that article, the newspaper had reported on the comments I had made on certain accountability issues of concern at the time. While under normal circumstances I would have no difficulty with the publication of what I said some 22 years ago, this is an electioneering period. As such, we should be guarded against involving independent-minded professional persons in the race to gain political office.
I note also that the article in question is an identical copy of a press clipping from a file I had maintained in the Audit Office at the time. It therefore
