AG asks Ganga: Where’s the evidence?

ATTORNEY GENERAL Glenda Mor-ean-Phillip yesterday asked Opposition Chief Whip Ganga Singh what was the delay in him providing her office with information about an alleged $29 million overpayment by WASA to Waterfarms (Trinidad) Limited, which will be turned over to Canadian forensic investigator, Bob Lindquist.

Addressing a news conference at Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday’s Port-of-Spain office yesterday, Singh said he was available to meet with Lindquist, but has received no word from the AG as to when that meeting would take place.

In a statement hours later, Morean Phillip said that despite Singh’s public utterances about having “acquired evidence linking several officials to financial impropriety,” and being  “desirous of an investigation being launched into the matter, there has been no response from Singh to her invitations to meet her and hand over his evidence.

Recalling that the UNC often said evidence about corruption “should be taken to the police” when it was in government, the AG declared: “This administration views the issue of corruption seriously, and as part of its proactive approach on the matter is inviting Mr Singh or anyone with similar information to refer it to the Office of the Attorney-General, the DPP, the police or any relevant law enforcement authority for urgent attention.’’