Af­ter al­most a month of si­lence, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is ex­pect­ed to make a state­ment on a con­tro­ver­sial au­dio record­ing of two per­sons dis­cussing plans to hire per­sons in the THA to pro­mote pro­pa­gan­da.

That’s the word from THA Sec­re­tary of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy Zor­isha Hack­ett, who was asked to com­ment on the is­sue yes­ter­day at a 4H To­ba­go Coun­cil in­stal­la­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex in Scar­bor­ough.

THA of­fi­cials have so far not re­spond­ed to calls to clear the air on the is­sue or com­ment on claims that the voic­es in the record­ing sound like two mem­bers of the THA Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil.

Yes­ter­day, Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Dr Faith B. Is­rael said Au­gus­tine will ad­dress the mat­ter in due time.

“The Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil de­cid­ed a long time ago that we will al­low the Chief Sec­re­tary to make a com­ment about that and we are al­low­ing him to do that and that will come soon,” she told re­porters af­ter a grant dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion.

“When the Chief Sec­re­tary is ready, which will be soon, you will hear him com­ment about it. We def­i­nite­ly have to sit and wait for the Chief Sec­re­tary to speak. When he speaks you will un­der­stand the sit­u­a­tion, you will un­der­stand the si­lence, you will un­der­stand every­thing we have been treat­ing and you will then say, ‘Ah, now I get it. “

For­mer Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Wat­son Duke said he will al­so have his say on the wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed record­ing af­ter Au­gus­tine breaks his si­lence.

“What I want to say on the voice note is I await the Chief Sec­re­tary, the per­son who holds him­self out as the Chief Sec­re­tary to speak on that mat­ter. I have a lot to say on that, a lot to say on that voice note specif­i­cal­ly and I am hold­ing back on that,” Duke, leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), said at a press con­fer­ence at the par­ty’s Port Mall of­fice yes­ter­day.