His escaping imprisonment only through presidential respite is one of the key issues Minister of Finance Winston Jordan will consider as he mulls a possible return to his current post if asked by the APNU+AFC coalition to serve again, should they win the next general elections.
“I will think about it again. I will give it a positive outlook but it continues to bother me that you give public service, which, as you know, don’t pay much, but you can be dragged to court in your personal capacity for debts owed (by) the state. That one has me floored from now to eternity,” Jordan said, when asked by Stabroek News if he would serve again in the post, should his government win the next elections.
“My family is pleading with me every day to leave the work. They don’t want me to continue. For them, they have suffered enough and I think that this one was the last straw. I felt put out, that all my years of public service, unblemished, could have been blotted by this development. Notwithstanding the rest of it, I don’t feel comfortable…” he added.