The is­sue of whether Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er should choose to va­cate his Fi­fa Vice-Pres­i­dent post is more of a moral mat­ter than a con­sti­tu­tion­al re­quire­ment. Se­nior Coun­sel and con­sti­tu­tion­al ex­pert Dana See­ta­hal was giv­ing her views on Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley's plans to write the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion to find out if it was prop­er for Warn­er to serve as a min­is­ter while re­main­ing as Fi­fa's Vice-Pres­i­dent. Draw­ing on her ex­per­tise, See­ta­hal, in an IETV re­port last night, said nowhere in the law books states or even sug­gests that a Cab­i­net min­is­ter can­not hold an­oth­er po­si­tion.

"The con­sti­tu­tion has noth­ing about that. The con­sti­tu­tion makes pro­vi­sion for peo­ple who are dis­qual­i­fied from sit­tings, and it has to do with things like if you are bank­rupt, if your are not a cit­i­zen, if you have con­vic­tions. "It says noth­ing about a min­is­ter not hold­ing a port­fo­lio of that na­ture." See­ta­hal, how­ev­er, not­ed that there was an un­der­line that min­is­ters ought to act with in­tegri­ty and not af­fect it with a con­flict of in­ter­est.

She said a con­flict of in­ter­est might arise to jug­gle both port­fo­lios, not­ing that some of the in­ter­na­tion­al port­fo­lios and com­mit­tees on which Warn­er sat were vol­un­tary po­si­tions, and made his sit­u­a­tion less ob­jec­tion­able. "I can see a pos­si­ble sit­u­a­tion aris­ing with com­mit­ments, and he would have to work that out." See­ta­hal said it was un­de­ni­able that Warn­er's record spoke for it­self.