Gya: Endless skulls working in Guyana's government

This seems to be the latest example of corruption in the Guyanese government. First the allegations about the Minister of Home Affairs Ronald Gajraj and death squads, now forgery involving Treasury and the ministry of Foreign Affairs. Quacks and invalids, oui, quacks and invalids.

Secretary to the Treasury, Neermal Rekha, yesterday distanced himself from a widening scandal over a remigrants scam saying he couldn't be expected to verify whether the Foreign Minister's signature had been forged on documents sent to the Finance Ministry.

In a statement issued less than a minute before one from the government announcing a further probe of the scam, Rekha said it was customary that documents signed by government ministers be checked and verified by the issuing ministry - in this case the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said he merely upheld the status granted when he signed documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which might have been forged. A key part of the scam appears to be the forging of the signature of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on documents sent to the Ministry of Finance for approval.
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He said also that the issue of authenticity of signature on the documents is "indeed alarming" but that his office is not technically or otherwise equipped to pronounce on the validity of the signature.

The point is not just whether the signature is forged, but whether the government of Guyana has a mechanism in place for assuring the validity of official documents. Apparently, it does not. So, government officials are going to pass the buck like crazy.