Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday denied knowledge of warehouse provision services for Office of the President saying that there must be a “mix up”.
Queens Atlantic Investment Inc, owned by New GPC proprietor Dr Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop, was the only company to submit a bid on September 24 last for the provision of warehouse services for the Office of President.
That lone bid, for $59.7 million, was opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) Ministry of Finance compound Main Street.
When the bid was opened it was unclear what would be stored at the warehouse facility. Stabroek News had been trying since then to ascertain its purpose. An Office of the President official had told this newspaper that only Dr Luncheon would have been able to provide that information.
However, yesterday Dr Luncheon seemed perplexed when asked about the facility.
“OP warehouse? A warehouse? You talking about the government health bond… That’s what you are talking about? Man it got to be the bond. I am saying to you what we will do with warehouse? No it got to be the bond it must be the bond,” he responded.
An explanation on the tender, date and bidder did not seem to help as Luncheon remained adamant that there had to be some mix up maintaining he was unaware of the tender. “Me? Oh My God! I aint know about OP warehouse,” he stressed.
“An OP warehouse? I don’t even believe… the term OP warehouse, I can’t even say is a misnomer it’s just incongruous. I can never make that kind of mistake. It’s like saying a man get three foot,” he added.
