Attorney and financial analyst Christopher Ram says Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and Attorney General Anil Nandlall should not continue in office over what a court has held to be the government’s unlawful spending of $4.5 billion on programmes not approved by the National Assembly.
Ram, writing on his blog at chrisram.net in wake of the recent finding by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, also says the Audit Office has been functioning more as a “protector and concealer” of the financial improprieties of the government and he has urged the resignation of the Auditor General Deodat Sharma, whom he calls “a danger to the public purse.
“This decision has confirmed what has been public knowledge as exposed by commentators like Anand Goolsarran and Raymond Gaskin and the two major dailies. It would be the worst form of lawlessness for the Govern-ment to continue spending in violation of the Consti-tution even though one is not assured by the
