Imbert warns Govt against appointing friends, relatives to State boards

Op­po­si­tion MP Colm Im­bert is warn­ing the Gov­ern­ment against ap­point­ing rel­a­tives, close friends and as­so­ciates to State boards, cau­tion­ing that such ap­point­ments could com­pro­mise good gov­er­nance and make it dif­fi­cult for the ad­min­is­tra­tion to hold in­di­vid­u­als ac­count­able for mis­con­duct.

He is al­so urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to ex­er­cise cau­tion when ap­point­ing peo­ple who claim to have been po­lit­i­cal­ly vic­timised un­der the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion, warn­ing that some may have been dis­missed for le­git­i­mate rea­sons.

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Speak­ing dur­ing Fri­day’s Pri­vate Mem­bers’ Day de­bate on the mo­tion ti­tled “Gov­er­nance of State En­ter­pris­es and State-Con­trolled In­sti­tu­tions”, Im­bert al­leged that nepo­tism had be­come in­creas­ing­ly preva­lent un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion.