The governing Jamaica Labour Party, (JLP) has accused the opposition of hypocrisy for comments made in relation to the decision to remove the Auditor General, (AG) as a commissioner of the Integrity Commission.
During Wednesday’s meeting of the Joint Select Committee on the Integrity Commission Act, government member Everald Warmington’s proposal for the AG’s removal from the commission was accepted.
The People’s National Party members voted against the move.
Yesterday, PNP President Mark Golding said the decision represents what he described as yet another step in a broader pattern of deliberate, strategic, and dangerous assaults by the Holness led administration on Jamaica’s anti-corruption architecture.
He said the Auditor General has been a member of Jamaica’s principal Integrity Oversight bodies since independence.
In a response today, government Senator, Marlon Morgan, accused the PNP of hypocrisy, claiming that the party had called for similar changes to the Integrity Commission Act, in 2019.