Current AG briefed of all issues and pending court matters

Dear Editor,
The public must, by now, be accustomed to the curious and uncanny habit of Attorney General Basil Williams, to blame the “previous Administration” or the “former AG”, or both, whenever he finds himself in a conundrum, on any given issue.
His alleged recent “discovery”, that DIPCON Engineering Company obtained judgment against the State in excess of 0 million since November 2015, is just but one example of a long line of such matters. He claims that he learnt of the matter only recently, and characteristically, blames me for his ignorance of its prior existence. I left that office in May 2015. That judgment was granted over six months after I demitted office. Yet, oddly, I am blamed. Attorney Mortimer Codette, through the letter columns of Guyana Times, has requested that I shed some light on this matter.
For the record, though not obliged to, on May 20, 2015, I briefed my successor on every major issue at the Attorney General’s Chambers and the Legal Affairs Ministry, including pending court matters. More specifically, I informed him that two external Counsels were retained to act in four or five cases that were pending in the court system. I named the lawyers and the cases. The DIPCON matter was one of those cases.
Moreover, the AG Chambers has a fully staffed Registry which has a full inventory and adequate record of every case involving the Attorney General’s Chambers pending in the court system. If any case is being conducted by external Counsel, sufficient particulars in relation thereto, are recorded in the Registry. The Registry falls under the supervision of the Solicitor General.
It cannot be the fault of the “previous Administration” or the “former AG” if the incumbent fails to familiarise himself with his office, duties and functions. I babysit none.
I hope that I have finally put these issues to rest.
Yours faithfully,
Mohabir Anil Nandlall, MP