Gail Alexan­der

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kei­th Row­ley has called on the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion to se­cure all NP doc­u­ments in its probe of the NP con­tract and the Prime Min­is­ter's con­duct re­gard­ing her stay at a Tu­na­puna house.

Row­ley is­sued a let­ter to the com­mis­sion yes­ter­day, af­ter At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan's re­port on the NP ten­der. Row­ley ac­cused Ram­lo­gan of "cov­er­ing up" in the NP is­sue. He re­it­er­at­ed the Op­po­si­tion's call for the com­mis­sion to probe the NP trans­port con­tract is­sue over 2010-2011.

Not­ing that the NP con­tract and the Prime Min­is­ter's con­duct in the house is­sue were be­fore the com­mis­sion, Row­ley said the AG re­cent­ly sought le­gal opin­ions on the mat­ter and pre­sent­ed them along with his own com­ments to the com­mis­sion. "The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has in this con­text al­so pub­licly ridiculed and dis­missed the res­i­den­cy mat­ter which is be­fore your in­de­pen­dent com­mis­sion for full ex­am­i­na­tion," he said. Not­ing the train of events in the NP is­sue, Row­ley said the AG had ap­point­ed him­self "Chief Ex­on­er­a­tor."

"The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has re­port­ed on the dis­ap­pear­ance of NP's sen­si­tive files per­ti­nent to the mat­ter at hand...in the face of clear-cut at­tempts at bid-rig­ging at NP, the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has in­ter­vened in an at­tempt to dis­con­nect the po­lit­i­cal di­rec­torate and the el­e­ments of the board of NP from be­ing iden­ti­fied to be held ac­count­able for any pos­si­ble mis­con­duct," he said.

"It is the Op­po­si­tion's view that the ac­tion of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al is a bla­tant at­tempt to ef­fect an of­fi­cial cov­er-up at NP. "He is at­tempt­ing to use the au­thor­i­ty of his of­fice to sway pub­lic opin­ion from the re­al is­sue at NP for the pro­tec­tion of per­son or per­sons who should be made to ac­count for their ac­tions and who should quite prop­er­ly be re­moved from con­duct­ing the State's busi­ness at NP. (GA)