Warrish Walwyn wants Hon Fahie investigated
The controversial Minister, who has been accused of wasting over a million dollars on a small wall around the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) in the lead up to the 2015 General Elections while schools were left lacking basic supplies, said he was going to ask the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to investigate certain spending under the then Minister for Education and Culture, Hon Fahie.
The House of Assembly was at the time debating the motion for the appointment of a Chairman to the Higher Education Licensing Board.
‘I didn’t spend a penny’
According to Hon Walwyn, who was challenged in the previous House of Assembly Sitting by Hon Fahie after he inappropriately attempted to defend BVI Airways, said the legislation now before the House came “without spending one penny” of the Government funds.
Further, he said when he came into the Ministry of Education the matter of medical schools and other issues was on the table and he met with the Committee in place and was told that they had given their advice already.
Hon Walwyn claimed that the committee told him that “what is being done now by the former Minister is unnecessary and should not be done because all that needed to be done was to put the legislation together.”
‘First time I am hearing this’
At this time Hon Fahie rose on a point of information, saying “This is the first time I hearing this. If I had a board in place that had concluded that and they didn’t bring it to me, then, Madam Speaker, I must be fast asleep.”
Further he said there was a reason his ministry did not go in the direction the current Minister is going.
“But I know the nature of the Minister. He wants to make sure that Fahie look like he spend $500,000 and nothing."
More in the mortar
Told by the Speaker of the House, Hon Ingrid A. Moses, to wrap up the debate, Hon Walwyn continued that there was a company called Effect Inc that walked away with $602,355.88 of the public’s money. “For something that I did for free, for something that could have been done for free, and I want people to look into who Effect Inc is because there is more in the mortar besides the pistle.
“I would be asking, Madam Speaker, the Public Accounts Committee to look into this matter because it is a very troubling matter.”
In response, Hon Fahie said he noted the Minister saying that he is asking the Public Accounts Committee to investigate this matter; however, the Minister knows better. “The Minister knows that he cannot direct the Public Accounts Committee, and this is his second consecutive term, but I understand what this is about, Madam Speaker.”
According to Hon Fahie he was not part of the tendering process. “There was a tendering process, Madam Speaker, competitive bidding, and there was a direction the Government was going…” Hon Fahie stated.
At one point of the debate, Hon Walwyn, who was constantly urged to wrap up the debate but was bent on attacking the Opposition Leader, had Section 30 of the Standing Orders read to him as, according to Hon Moses, she did not take kindly to the Member suggesting that other persons in the House were not speaking the truth.
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Myron should as us to investigate his food contracts and legal contracts recieved from government
Respect has gone out of the House of Assembly, and just as in the case of the unfortunate murders in the Territory, this honorable house has now become the place where much character slaying takes place.
Grow up!