Yesterday morning, after a 3-month pause, the Commission of Inquiry into the sale of government assets continued with the summoning of 4 witnesses.
The panel wanted to find out about the disposal of 5 government vehicles, and whether or not the purchasers paid a fair price to the public purse for those assets. But, the most controversial back and forth from yesterday's inquiry happened during the testimony of Alpheus Gillett. He's the current chairman of Biscayne Village and the former Rural Coordinator for NEMO.
Records in the hands of the commissioners say that he bought 2 vehicles: a 2010 Great Wall Wingle truck, which he paid $1,000 for, and a 2017 Great Wall Wingle, which government records suggest that he paid $500 dollars for.
During his testimony, Gillett told the commissioners that he only knows about the 2010 truck. As to the 2017 vehicle, he insisted that he never paid for it, and neither did he collect it from the Government's Vehicle Care Unit.
We start first with the conversation about the 2010 vehicle. Here's what he had to say on that:
Thereafter, the Commissioners pressed him to explain the 2017 vehicle, for which he paid $500. During that back and forth, Gillett insisted to the panel that he doesn't know anything about that:
No date has been announced for the next hearing.
