…Officer no longer with NDIA – Ramsammy Instances of conflict of interest at the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) revealed in a damning report prepared by the entity’s former Field Auditor was found to be truthful,Cheap Jerseys China, said Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy.Dr. Ramsammy said that the officer, who was involved in the conflict of interest scenario where he was supervising a project awarded to one of his relatives,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, was asked to leave NDIA. The officer was not involved in the hiring of the contractor, he pointed out.Last October,Wholesale China Jerseys, a report prepared by the Field Auditor recommended the immediate dismissals of the NDIA’s Chief Executive Officer Lionel Wordsworth and Senior Section Engineer,?Aneel Chowbay. The report highlighted several instances of fraud and conflict of interest.The report on fuel consumption and equipment operations and maintenance,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, was conducted between May and September 2012. It was completed and submitted to the Chairman of NDIA Board of Directors on September 26, and copied to President Donald Ramotar.NDIA’s Chairman, Dharamkumar Seeraj had confirmed that there were procedural breaches at the entity.Speaking about the allegations in the report that was leaked to the media Dr. Ramsammy said, “Have people stolen fuel? The answer is yes…I am not going to say that we do not have these things… One thing we did find legitimate was that one of the officers was related to one of the contractors. I am not saying that he did anything but the perception of a conflict of interest did exist. And,Wholesale Jerseys, that officer was asked to leave.”According to Dr. Ramsammy, he requested the Auditor General to check into specific allegations about corrupt practices. The Auditor General is about to complete those investigations and he is awaiting the report, Dr. Ramsammy added.In relation to the claims of procedural breaches at NDIA, he said that Seeraj and the Board were referring to the Field Auditor. However, the Minister said that he is “not going into it until the report is done.”The Field Auditor was sent on administrative leave subsequent to the report being leaked to the media. He is no longer with NDIA since his request in February to renew his contract was not answered. His contract expired in April.The Minister stated that it was NDIA’s Board that recommended that the Field Auditor’s contract must not be renewed and not the Ministry of Agriculture.In relation to the former Field Auditor’s claim that he was not given an audience with the Minister to discuss illegal use of NDIA’s funds,Cheap Jerseys, the Minister dismissed it as a lie.“I am not aware of any officer in this Ministry making a request to see me and not being granted. No officer in this Ministry needs to make a request to see me. They can see me at least 20 times per day. I visit every office in this Ministry. I walk this compound. So any officer who says that he tried to see me (and failed) is telling an absolute and blatant lie,” he declared.