MMA-ADA owed $35 million in rent

The Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) is owed $35 million in rent and may be unable to recover the sum due to poor management, a forensic audit into the entity has found.

The audit, done by TSD LAL & Co revealed that the Authority failed to update the files for tenants regularly with some instances being found where agreements were missing. In addition, many agreements that expired were not renewed.

“There were no pages in the rent ledger book related to several tenants. The ledger book was the