AFC mulls court action against...

Frompage8 whatstepstheAFCiswilling to take to force the government into conducting timely reviews of its expenses, Former General SecretaryoftheAFC,David Pattersonsaidlegalactionis among options that may be considered as the elected officials have not been prioritizingtheaudits.

The Shadow Minister of Natural Resources said the Opposition party will await the deadline in which the government is expected to receive a final report for the audit reviewing the years 2018 to 2020 before decidingonalegalrecourse.

“First thing is, we gonna wait on the last deadline which is supposed to be at the end of the month- it's another 21 days and then obviously I do think that maybe we may even look to move to Court or something like that because obviously theyhaveacontract.Wecan probablyevenaskthepublic procurement commission to examine the outcome because we have two contracts.

Two sets of contracts which they have given out, oneforpre-contractandnow the second one for the post (discovery) and none have been made public None have been completed so therefore we can probably start looking at either legal action or even asking the public procurement commission to address it becauseobviouslythisisthe people's money has been paid,”Pattersonexplained.

Kaieteur News reported earlier this week that two years after approving ExxonMobil's US$9B budget to produce 600 million barrels of oil from the Payara project in the