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WASA files are now before the Attorney General for his evaluation, after Public Utilities Minister Barry Padarath says he unearthed questionable transactions at the Authority.

Rynessa Cutting has more from the House of Representatives .
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00:00The Attorney General is to review certain transactions conducted by the former government
00:05as it pertains to the Water and Sewerage Authority.
00:09I could put the country on notice today.
00:12Today, what I have shared with respect to WASA has already gone to the Honorable Attorney General
00:18and that is why the members spoke about the AG talking about he will go to war with them
00:23and the AG knows what he speaks about.
00:26According to Public Utilities Minister Bari Padarath, among the files is one pertaining to the WASA Transformation Office
00:34which was established to drive the WASA Transformation Plan.
00:39I then asked, where is this office? Is it at WASA?
00:45Nobody could tell me where this office is.
00:47Later I found out that they leased a building on Scott Bush Street for $3 million
00:53for five people to operate out of.
00:56When I started to ask the questions, then I got to resignations.
01:00I asked, well, where did these resignations come from?
01:03They said, well, the people who are working on the Transformation Plan,
01:06I said, but I've been asking for the names of these people for two weeks now.
01:11Why am I now getting resignations?
01:13So why don't they want to continue?
01:15Mr. Speaker, they could produce no work
01:18in terms of what they have been doing for the last two to three years.
01:22It was a slush fund.
01:24It was a slush fund, Mr. Speaker.
01:27Also catching Minister Padarath's attention
01:29was a contract awarded to a company
01:32owned by a man who was registered as the former minister's sub-agent for elections.
01:37A campaign manager who got almost $25 million in contracts
01:46in the last three years in Warsaw,
01:49but a campaign manager that belongs to the People's National Movement.
01:52And today I can prove it.
01:54Today I can prove it.
01:58$25 million in three years.
02:01Many of which were so select,
02:04many of which is being investigated now.
02:06But Mr. Speaker, days before the general election,
02:11there was a company that was awarded a $3 million contract,
02:18sole select.
02:19And the member for Ruka Lopino looks at me very puzzled,
02:21but I'm almost certain he's not really puzzled.
02:24While speaking earlier in the debate,
02:26MP4 Ruka Lopino and former Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzalez
02:30had some words for Attorney General John Jeremy.
02:33This is someone who has the distinguished career
02:39of a vote of no confidence by the law association
02:43for interfering in the operations of the director of public prosecutions.
02:48And therefore, when he stands in this parliament,
02:56a stranger to this parliament,
02:58not an elected member,
02:59pointing to members opposite and said,
03:01I'm coming for you, I'm coming for you.
03:04I want to tell the Honourable Attorney General
03:07that the Lord is my shepherd
03:10and there is nothing I shall do.
03:15Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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