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Ministers Shouting At Each Other In Cabinet Meeting
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 5, 2011: at the meeting held on the evening of January 4 to discuss the irregularities in the purchase of equipment including armored vehicles called Armed Personnel Carriers (APCs) for the Nepal Police for using them in its UN mission in Sudan, ministers have pointed their fingers at each other for not enforcing the report on the irregularities, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
Quoting the Finance Minister, ‘The Rising Nepal’ writes that the government is for taking actions against the officials involved in the irregularities but the process is to be decided after consulting the Secretary to the Law Ministry and the Attorney General.
Some ministers have asked the prime minister to enforce the report prepared by the Parliamentary Committee on State Affairs on findings of the irregularities in the purchase of equipment and armored vehicles for the Nepal Police for its UN Mission in Sudan. The report has stated that Rs. 330 million has been misappropriated out of Rs. 440 million worth of purchase.
Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala has left the meeting once they have started discussing the issue of the irregularities in the purchase of the equipment and armored vehicles for the Nepal Police. The Nepalese media has recently reported that a Bangladeshi national called Ruwel Choudhary: son-in-law of Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala has been involved in the purchase of the equipment and armored vehicles for the Nepal Police.
The UN has refused to reimburse the money used for purchasing the faulty and sub-standard equipment and armored vehicles and stop the Nepal Police from using those equipment and vehicles and asked the Government of Nepal to replace those equipment and armored vehicles with new ones.
