President Irfaan Ali’s rebuke of two members of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) for their role in this country’s suspension from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) came from a place of misinformation, as among a number of reasons, their abstaining from voting could not impact the decision, board members Vanda Radzik and Mike McCormack have said .
In a letter to the President that they have made public, Radzik and McCormack, who are part of the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of GYEITI, said they were attempting to clear up misinformation about the issue and “set the record straight”.
Following Stabroek News’ report last week on Guyana’s suspension from the Norway-based EITI for failing to meet an end-of-year submission of the 2020 report, Ali, in a Face-book video that same day, said his government was firmly committed to openness and accountability, and blamed members of the MSG for the country’s predicament.