Looking pass the ‘colorful’ language used, one must question why is it the Auditor General, who just seems to be going about doing what he is being paid to do, would be in issue to anyone to have them reach this point.

“Johnson: Auditors did a poor job” – The Nassau Guardian 8^th April 2019

Excerpt from this article; “Former Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture Dr. Danny Johnson accused auditors of performing their jobs poorly following a report on the National Sports Authority (NSA) from Auditor General Terrance Bastian, which found, among other things, that contracts issued by the NSA ‘lacked formalized process and transparency’.

The report, which was tabled in the House of Assembly last week, covered the period from July 2011 to December 2017.

‘If Mr. Bastian feels that there are things that are untoward, then I think that’s fine, and we can answer those questions, but I could defend whatever the hell that is,’ Johnson said on Friday on ‘The Hit back” with Naheja on Star 106 Hits..

He added, ‘Every penny can be accounted for.’

He continued, ‘…..Don’t put no nonsense out to the public.  You think Danny Johnson might have thief some money? Man kiss my ass.’

‘I can make my own money’

Johnson insisted all the necessary paper work was available to account for the authority’s spending.

‘They are not good auditors,’ he said.”

Now, I am not at all offended by the former cabinet ministers ‘strong language’, as I have been known to use such language from time to time to get my point across  but from what I can see an audit was done, which indicated some irregularities – so I think at this point  the response of “If Mr. Bastian feels that there are things untoward, then I think that’s fine, and we can answer those questions..” was sufficient…..then go ahead and answer the questions as to why there seems to have been no value delivered for the monies paid out on these contracts, because this is all that that the report suggests. But to attack the very same auditor general that you once used as a member of the government, since he has been on the job since 2000 and find no fault with, makes one look over a situation two or three times, which would have otherwise been basically passed over by the public at large.

It would seem that this is a case of Mr. Johnson, whom many have come to his defense labeling him as one of the best at that Cabinet position, protesting too much. Now having some believe that where there is smoke there is fire because at this point the former minister has not been accused of any wrong-doing.

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