Pull Quote: “The Minister of Home Affairs and the Commissioner of Police should be prosecuted. They cannot legally put the money into the Welfare Fund.” – Christopher RamThe publication of a cheque drawn on the Police Welfare Fund and payable to Assistant CommissionerCommissioner of Police Henry GreeneDavid Ramnarine for the purpose of feeding in-lying police ranks has raised serious issues as it relates to the Minister of Finance.This is according to several prominent local financial experts including Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram, who is of the view that the transaction is highly suspicious since the funds disbursed should have been done in accordance with official government practices.The Ministry of Home Affairs last week issued a statement in attempt to clear the air on a contentious $90M that was drawn from the Consolidated Fund.The ministry had also published the copy of a Police Welfare Fund cheque paid to Assistant Commissioner David Ramnarine.This was after Ramnarine, who was Commander of the Police Interior Division, had indicated that he did not receive any money from the police to provide for his ranks during last November’s General and Regional Elections.“If Rohee thinks that he has embarrassed Ramnarine,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, he has raised serious issues of the Minister of Finance,” Christopher Ram told this newspaper.The prominent Accountant, who is also an attorney at law, explained that the government had sought the $90M under line item 6261 which caters for local travel and subsistence. This, he said, has nothing to do with the Police Welfare Fund.Payments of such nature should be done via a Bank of Guyana cheque drawn on the police account.“The Minister of Home Affairs and the Commissioner of Police should be prosecuted. They cannot legally put the money into the Welfare Fund,Cheap NHL Jerseys Free Shipping,” Ram stated emphatically.His views are supported by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), which in a press release yesterday, supported the call for a complete audit of the $90M.According to the PNCR, the main partner in the alliance, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the publication of a cheque for $320,000 written to Asst. Commissioner Ramnarine might have satisfied the general public that the officer did receive some money.But the party said that the issue is whether this was part of the money allocated for E&F Division, out of the $90M, for the feeding of ranks in-lying for the 28th November 2011 General and Regional Elections.Christopher RamThe PNCR stated that apart from Ramnaraine’s explanation that this cheque was received some time after 28th November 2011, it is even more concerned that the cheque was drawn on the Central Police Welfare Fund.“It should be noted that,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, in all of the responses from the Guyana Police Force and that of the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee, on Thursday 15th March 2012, there was no mention of the Central Police Welfare Fund.”According to the PNCR, the public was told that the $90M was used to cover expenses for three categories of expenses, which exceeded the amount approved in the 2011 National Budget.This included transportation and meals for ranks in-lying for the 28th November 2011 General and Regional Elections, with a balance of approximately $10M remaining unspent.“It was only at the Sitting of the National Assembly, on Thursday 15th March 2012, when A.P.N.U Member of Parliament, Ms. Volda Lawrence questioned the Minister of Home Affairs, that mention was made of monies ($10.5M) being allocated to the Central Police Welfare Fund,” the PNCR? statement said.“When asked what was the relationship between the Central Police Welfare Fund and feeding our Policemen and women, the Minister did not give an answer.? The Minister must come clean on the spending of this $90M allocation for our men and women who risk their lives each day for all of Guyana.”The party said that given the scanty answers presented by the Minister on the many questions asked on this matter and the several variances in amounts actually allocated to divisions E & F, there is need for an independent investigation into this matter.“This leaves the PNCR with no alternative but to request, in the interest of transparency and accountability , that the Auditor General be asked to immediately conduct an audit of this allocation of funds to the Guyana Police Force.”The Home Affairs Minister had told the National Assembly that he did not see the need for an audit of the way the $90M was disbursed. However, Auditor General Deodat Sharma had told this newspaper that the Home Affairs Minister cannot prevent his office from carrying out an audit.This position has irked the Minister, who in a subsequent statement indicated that as Minister of Home Affairs, h