But, circling back to Briceno's comments, sounds like he proposes to institute something like CICIG - which was recently booted out of Guatemala. He spoke on Saturday about, quote, "a fully functional anti-corruption agency. One that is free from government interference," end quote.
TODAY, The press asked him to explain just what he means:..
Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"That any organization, any office, any group that the government controls will be unable to do an open and transparent investigation into anybody. That is why it is important for us to come up with a new body that is going to be totally and completely independent of the government. The government is not going to control it. We are just working on the actual details but from the ideas that we are having is that yes we are going to have both political parties being on board, but our social partners are going to be the majority and we are hoping at least for the first 5 years that the head of that group we are hoping that maybe we could get a foreigner - that has no axe to grind with nobody, that can come in and do an investigation on anyone, from the highest levels of government, from the prime minister to the lowest levels of government. So the politicians and the public service also have to be held accountable in the work that they are doing."
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