The establishment of a National Procurement Commission as a constitutional body will be one of the immediate measures to be introduced if the Alliance for Change (AFC) is able to secure sufficient votes to assume administrative power.According to the Party’s Economic Advisor Sasenarine Singh, “immediately we are going to have savings on two aides of the budget, on the current side, which is how they do buying of stationery, fuel and includes everything else, and on the capital side where we are going to be having savings as it relates to how we do capital contracts.”This move, however, does not mean that there will be a reduction of capital works but rather the country will be poised to benefit from better works, Singh asserted.“We are not going to have a Fip Motilall Road which is being tendered at multiples of what it’s worth. We are going to be having better value for money,Cheap Wholesale Adidas Shoes,” he confidently assured.The Economic Advisor underscored, too, that it is time that the public understands the mentality in the Guyana capital budget today, adding that there is an element that has to go towards ‘kickbacks’.? He made reference to the point that about 15 per cent of the total national budget could be re-directed to sorting out issues such as salary increases.“This has to be a systemic change and the first thing we have got to do to exercise change is to do what the Jagdeo/Ramotar (regime) has been avoiding for the last five years,Cheap Womens Nike Shox, which is to establish the constitutional body called the National Procurement Commission.”This body, according to Singh, should have an individual who is powerful and independent enough to be free of the executive.“The president should not be able to call this person and say ‘boy I got a friend help he out with a contract or order’. That is what happens today in the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government,” Singh opined.According to AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan, the party is aware that there are static funds totalling in excess of $6.4 billion all across the budget in various accounts.?? Static funds,Cheap Air Max 2019 Shoes, he explained, are like slush funds hiding away.“I understand from two senior ranking officials in the Finance Ministry,Nike Shox Outlet Clearance, whose names I can’t give, that these (accounts) are there to prove to international agencies that the government is not doing so well with revenue collection or with the state of its revenue so that it can give what is called a deceptive status quo positioning of the government.”They have hid this around the place in about six or seven accounts,” Ramjattan asserted.Moreover,Cheap Nike Shoes Online, he said that “we in the Parliament cannot see how the NICIL funds, the Privatization Unit Funds, the Lotto Funds, the Gold Board Funds and a number of other funds are being spent.”According to Ramjattan, a legal opinion, which was done by Mr. Ramson, had informed that there was no need for the monies from the various accounts to be placed in the Consolidated Fund when such a demand was made by the Auditor General.“When we go into Parliament we scrutinise what is left in the Consolidated Fund, but as we do more and more scrutiny of the budget, we are finding monies that are not in the Consolidated Fund…static funds, slush funds, Lotto, this, that and those monies that are coming are a humongous amounts…”With the monies that have been detected, Ramjattan said that more money can be paid to workers. He pointed out that when workers are paid more,Clearance Nike Shox Mens, unlike what the Jagdeo administration is doing by saying that workers have to produce more like the cane cutters before they get more pay, the AFC is of the view that “if you pay the workers more they will produce more; that is our philosophy,” Ramjattan asserted.