NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The federal government says it has requested and accepted the resignation of the manager chairman of the Water and Sewerage Company (WSC), Sylvanus Petty, amid experiences that Prime Minister Phillip Davis had requested {that a} contract that was given by WSC to his daughter, Sylatheia Gierszewski, be canceled.
A quick authorities assertion gave no causes for requesting his resignation, noting that “Performing Prime Minister Chester Cooper accepted the resignation on behalf of the Prime Minister” who has traveled to Saudi Arabia for the inaugural Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Saudi Arabia summit that will get underway there in a while Thursday.
“We thank Mr. Petty for his service,” the assertion stated.
Earlier this month, Petty was being cross-examined within the corruption trial of the previous WSC chairman and present Member of Parliament, Adrian Gibson, when information of the contract to Petty’s daughter turned public.
Petty advised the court docket that he didn’t discourage awarding contracts to individuals identified by members of the WSC board, saying “everybody in The Bahamas was household.”
He additionally stated he didn’t frown on nepotism and had no downside with the corporate coming into into contracts with political allies in the event that they had been succesful.
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