Although the new government has signalled its intent to disband the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), it is concerned that the shuttering of the body would see some 40 members of staff out of a job.
Nandlall told a press conference on Saturday that while the government has no difficulty in terminating the contracts of the senior staff, whom he described as the “political fat cats”, the junior ones are another matter.
“There are about 40 staff in SARA and if you shut the agency down you are putting persons out of work and that’s our concern right now… Our concerns remain the number of persons— not the political fat cats there because there are a few of them there working over a million and more dollars each per month, those are not our concerns, our concerns are the lower staff,” Nandlall told a virtual press conference.