In addition to staying silent on withdrawing statements on the “clean audit” declaration he made about the National Resource Fund (NRF), the Auditor General has also not clarified a number of issues relating to the 2012 Kares contract for building the $661 million Kato School, Former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran says.
According to Goolsarran, the Auditor General has also to date, not pronounced on what should have been red flags concerning the award of the Kares contract to build the school back in 2012 and on subsequent investigations after the contractor was penalized for shoddy work.
“It is unclear why the Auditor General did not comment on the award of the contract for the Kato school in his 2012 report since the contract was entered into on the last day of the fiscal year 2012, the date when all appropriations lapse and unspent balances have to be returned to the Consolidated Fund,” Goolsarran wrote in his Accountability column this week.
