Thieves get comfortable without accountability – Hon Fahie
Throwing hints at the National Democratic Party (NDP 1), the Opposition Leader says that while the past is important, we must look at the present and strive for accountability now or someone else will.
Early lessons
“While we celebrate 40 years off of Grant-in-Aid, it actually took them [past government] 10 years, or even 11… after the Government was formed to help us get across the red seas,” Hon Fahie told those gathered at a dinner event on December 15, 2018, to mark the anniversary.
“This tells me that when you make a mistake with the finances of your country, no matter what era it is, it takes you a while to rebound,” he said.
“But I’m sure that the learnt lessons, that we… strangely enough, have to relearn. Because history does not repeat itself, people repeat history. It is there for all to see and to read,” Hon Fahie uttered.
“There is something strange about life, no matter what kind of cameras you have and a thief goes there… after about six to seven months he feels comfortable, and feel that he can go steal and the cameras are not watching him… and they get caught,” he said.
More accountability
The VIP Chairman, no stranger at berating the NDP Government, have accused them for having a general lack of accountability, transparency good governance in the VI. Over its rule, the party has seen some of its most senior members get involved with high-profile scandals regarding poor financial management.
One such scandal is the current debacle surrounding the Co-Leader of Government and Minister for Education and Culture, Hon Myron V. Walwyn (AL) for a poorly constructed wall he commissioned around the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) costing taxpayers some $1.6M.
According to the Auditor General (AG), Ms Sonia M. Webster, the project was said to be corrupt and lacked accountability with a report on the wall now forwarded to the Police for further action.
“The problem with this is this is that sometimes we get so comfortable, with what we are doing and not being accountable… and once you don’t become accountable, then you’re going to cause generations unborn to be uncomfortable,” Hon Fahie said.
In January 2005, during his First District Annual Report, Mr Fahie had labelled the NDP Government as the most corrupt in the modern history of the VI, calling them “morally and politically bankrupt.”
“If we don’t police ourselves, someone is going to police us in a manner that we all will regret, therefore we have to strive for the highest levels of accountability, transparency and good governance,” the Opposition Leader said.
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