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After months of allegations and suspicions of bad money-management within the portfolios of sports and youth, the long-awaited audit of the Ministry of Youth and Sports is near completion. The process, which has drawn national attention and calls for accountability, is expected to provide clarity on financial practices and administrative procedures within the ministry under the previous administration. Minister of Youth and Sports, Anthony Mahler, expressed that the audit has been thorough, and moving forward greater checks and balances will be enforced.
Anthony Mahler, Minister of Youth and Sports: “That we need to put in some more of the checks and balances, which we have been doing, that there has to be a higher level of accountability, which we will do. And that we will show the nation that we will do things differently under Minister Daly and I’s leadership. For example, when you disburse monies for example in the district committees then there has to be accountability for it. When there is no accountability for the renting of facilities that to me that should come into a consolidated fund. That didn’t happen. And these are the things that we’re talking about. Relatively minor because you’re talking not about a great deal of money after salaries anyhow. So it’s not this rampant corruption that people want to make. We’re just in this environment where they want to paint all politicians as corrupt, that type of thing. And I mean throughout history that has happened. So as politicians we have to take our lumps and we have to deal with the environment that we are operating in but I think as long as you show work, you show progress, you are accountable to the people, then you should be okay.”
Youth and Sports are only two areas that the Public Service Union has been demanding to be audited.
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