Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, Jermaine Figueira yesterday advocated for engineers and clerks of works to be held accountable for overpayments made based on their approvals of incomplete or substandard works.
“A lot of the time when these issues arise at PAC the contractor is the one who is considered the guilty person when he doesn’t sign off on the work. We need to start looking at the engineers who sign off on these works. Let them carry some of the responsibility for these overpayments because the contractor does deal with these finances,” Figueira observed.
Auditor General Deodat Sharma proffered his agreement noting that it is not only the contractors who are at fault for overpayments.
