Bahamas Police query former authorities minister Lanisha Rolle

Bahamas Police have questioned former authorities minister, Lanisha Rolle, and her husband as investigations proceed into the Ministry of Youth, Sports activities and Tradition after an audit carried out between July 1, 2018, to January 2021, uncovered a number of irregularities.

“Sure, presently they’re being questioned,” Police Commissioner, Clayton Fernander, confirmed, including that the questioning started on Tuesday.

The police commissioner mentioned he couldn’t say “precisely” why the previous minister and her husband have been being questioned however added “you realize what was circulating within the media. We’re chatting with them presently”.

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Final November, media studies mentioned the previous minister was below energetic police investigation as part of their probe into the ministry. Deputy Commissioner of Police Leamond Deleveaux later denied these studies saying then that the police have been solely wanting into some “irregularities” on the ministry.

Mrs. Rolle resigned from Cupboard in February 2021 for “private causes,” along with her departure coming after then Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis had ordered a lockdown of the Ministry of Youth, Sports activities, and Tradition.

The media had reported that ministry officers and the board of the Nationwide Sports activities Authority had develop into involved that established processes and procedures weren’t being adopted and so they took their issues to Dr. Minnis.

An audit by the auditor basic, which was later tabled within the Home of Meeting in November 2021, uncovered a number of purple flags, together with “poor upkeep practices on the company, insufficient stock controls and boards that weren’t capable of perform the features of the authority, amongst different issues”.

The report additionally discovered {that a} contract was awarded with out Cupboard approval and in addition cases the place cheques to contractors have been made out to named people, no firms, and picked up by a senior official of the Ministry of Youth, Sports activities & Tradition.

The previous authorities minister has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, saying her monitor report spoke for itself telling reporters that she believed in due time, the reality can be revealed.

CMC/