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OCG accepts Warmington idiot apology
OCG accepts Warmington idiot apology
Expands investigation into construction company linked to MP
Jamaica Observer
Thursday, August 19, 2010
CONTRACTOR General Greg Christie says that he has accepted an apology from Member of Parliament for South Western St Catherine Everard Warmington for calling him, among other insults, an "idiot".
However Christie simultaneously announced an expansion of the investigation into Strathairn Construction Company Limited, of which Warmington was a former director, which had provoked the outburst from the MP on Monday.
“Despite the fact that I have not had the privilege of receiving his apology personally, I have, nonetheless, accepted it in principle and I wish Mr Warmington all that is well," said Christie in a statement today.
“It is my hope that he would have come to realise that the Office of the Contractor General is merely dispassionately discharging a mandate which has been imposed upon it by a statute – a statute that was crafted not by the OCG, but by the very Parliament in which he, Mr Warmington, now sits," he said.
The Contractor General said that his office would be scrutinising contracts performed by SCCL, for and on behalf of the National Works Agency and the Ministry of Transport and Works.
An audit team from the OCG yesterday visited the ministry and the NWA to seize documents and files.
He said that $70 Million was paid by the NWA to SCCL between March 2007 and June 2010 in relation to several Government contracts.
Expands investigation into construction company linked to MP
Jamaica Observer
Thursday, August 19, 2010
CONTRACTOR General Greg Christie says that he has accepted an apology from Member of Parliament for South Western St Catherine Everard Warmington for calling him, among other insults, an "idiot".
However Christie simultaneously announced an expansion of the investigation into Strathairn Construction Company Limited, of which Warmington was a former director, which had provoked the outburst from the MP on Monday.
“Despite the fact that I have not had the privilege of receiving his apology personally, I have, nonetheless, accepted it in principle and I wish Mr Warmington all that is well," said Christie in a statement today.
“It is my hope that he would have come to realise that the Office of the Contractor General is merely dispassionately discharging a mandate which has been imposed upon it by a statute – a statute that was crafted not by the OCG, but by the very Parliament in which he, Mr Warmington, now sits," he said.
The Contractor General said that his office would be scrutinising contracts performed by SCCL, for and on behalf of the National Works Agency and the Ministry of Transport and Works.
An audit team from the OCG yesterday visited the ministry and the NWA to seize documents and files.
He said that $70 Million was paid by the NWA to SCCL between March 2007 and June 2010 in relation to several Government contracts.
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