It took a few months, but it's finally settled: Troy Gabb and all officers and employees of the DFC will appear before the Commission of Inquiry and give complete disclosure of all documents requested by the commission. In the end, the go-ahead came from Gabb's ultimate boss, the Minister of Finance, Prime Minister Said Musa.
A late evening statement from the DFC confirms this position. The statement comes after an all-star Supreme Court pow-wow before the Chief Justice this morning featuring Commission Attorney Lois Young Barrow, Government Attorney Elson Kaseke, DFC Attorney Michel Chebat, and Director of Public Prosecutions Kirk Anderson. Chebat announced that he was dropping his motion before the court. Filed last week, that motion asked the court to clarify whether Gabb should or should not make disclosure of documents protected under the DFC's Secrecy Act.
With that motion dropped, the DPP gave his undertaking that no employee, officer, or director of the DFC would be prosecuted for disclosure of information that may have fallen under the secrecy clause. With this all cleared up, today's DFC statement says that "it is the intention of the DFC to comply with the summons issued by the Commission of Inquiry." We expect that compliance will come sometime after Commission Chair David Price returns to the country.
