A Partnership for National Unity has said that at the end of Monday’s fourth sitting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) during this Tenth Parliament, the PPP members taking advantage of the absence of AFC member, Trevor Williams, took the unprecedented step of forcing a vote on a matter before the Committee.The subject of the discussion was the appointment of 11 members of staff of the Auditor General’s Department. The Office has for some time been the subject of long consideration by the PAC because most of the staff members being proposed for appointment by the Auditor General were not considered to be adequately qualified to fill the positions. For this reason they have been acting for years.Mr. Deodat Sharma, the Auditor General, has been acting for seven years. Without warning,Jeff Green Jersey, at the last meeting of the PAC on June 18, 2012, the PPP members reversed their position on the appointments and as a prelude began challenging the right of the members of the PAC to question the proposal for appointments made by Mr. Sharma.APNU said that on Monday, the PPP members,Mens Nike Free Run, contrary to the consensual approach normally used for decisions of the PAC forced a vote to appoint all the staff including those whose appointments they had previously opposed,World Baseball Classic Jerseys Outlet, because they have not met the qualifications required for the posts.“It is widely understood that the purpose of the PPP decision was not really to appoint the other members but to promote the wife of Dr. Ashni Singh,Authentic Nike NBA Jerseys,” APNU contended.APNU and AFC members had been arguing in the past, and the PNCR before them,Cheap NBA Jerseys Online, that auditors have a professional responsibility to avoid being involved in auditing accounts in which they and their close relatives are involved.Dr. Singh is the Chairman of the Board for a variety of entities including the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL),World Soccer Shop, Bank of Guyana, and National Procurement and Tender Administration. The National Assembly has called for a forensic audit of NICIL, APNU noted.The political grouping added that the Ministry of Finance is in control of a large number of public entities of significance and especially those where there have been questions about their practices.“The danger of appointing the wife of the Minister of Finance to be responsible for the audits of public enterprises such as NICIL is certainly a conflict of interest.“APNU has proposed and continues to do so that it is urgent and in the best interest of transparency that the President appoints a substantive and qualified Auditor General.? It is unfortunate that the PPP’s unprincipled action is likely to undermine the integrity of the analyses and recommendations from the Office of the Auditor General.”