REAL NEWS- Barbuda MP Trevor Walker is adding his voice to the call for National Housing’s audited financial accounts to be laid before the Parliament.
Since the Browne Administration’s first term in office, the United Progressive Party has been making a similar call – which seems to have fallen on deaf ears, since only management accounts have ever been presented.
Walker reminds the Administration that, for years, the Government has been borrowing millions of dollars to inject into the entity; but there is no proof that the people have been getting value for money, despite the Prime Minister’s boast about the housing boom in Antigua and Barbuda.
Walker’s comments come on the heels of a Resolution that was passed by the Parliament on Monday, July 11, that sought permission to borrow another $10 million to inject into National Housing.
Walker warns the Government that it cannot continue to pump money into the entity without the people knowing how their tax dollars are being spent.
A resident involved in the construction industry, meanwhile, calls the request for another injection of $10 million “just incredible.”
“This is a project in which houses are sold,” he says. “This is not free housing provided for the indigent, like Section 8 housing for welfare recipients in America.
“Where is the profit on all the houses already sold; houses that were financed by bank loans the owners had to take out? And if there is no profit, then there is mismanagement, and an audit needs to be undertaken urgently,” he says.
Several years ago, the St. Phillip’s South MP, Lennox Weston, who is also the Minister of Works, declared that the Administration was burning money via the National Housing scheme of “500 Homes in 500 Days.”
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Whey de money gorn????????? Dem nuh want all you see all their bulldozer and backhoe and excavator being hired by NH. Dem nuh want show we the accounts.
Housing scheme to hide Corruption? Once they don’t want to show the side work one will have to question. In maths exam figures and formulars are important to see how one get the answer so is it in politics.
In time to come the corruption will be reveiled and many are going to act all surprised as if they were not warned as to the self enrichment that was going on.
“MP CHIDES BARBUDANS….” (Daily Observer 2010)
They are stealing money, for sure. It’s all about construction. We should be reminded by the Prime Minister’s statement on how simple it is to hustle money, through construction.
Construction is one of the best routes into multi-million dollar corruption, Mr. Stanford knew that and shared the plan with his friends in Antigua. If the hands that have been in the housing pot are traced, they would find several large properties owned by them, some by their Ministers, their Headquarters, the equipment contracts to their families, and other cash endowments.
This has been one of the biggest scams ever, and they are now beginning to paint a background of charity by suggesting large concessionary discounts to buyers to cover the humongous losses which this housing project has occasioned.
Even one Representative spoke out about it until he got his share.
I just love Trevor Walker. He seems to be the hardest working government minister asking the tough questions. Forget the labour ministers. They are a just a bunch of freeloaders getting rich and doing nothing for the country. Gaston alone makes all the decisions. His ministers dare not have a say. But then he is such a bully, they are afraid they will be shunned and their enrichment schemes will end.
Truck drivers and heavy equipment operators owned by some of these politicians has to be paid . materials purchased from some businesses a Politician have share in have
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