But we do know that Meat Master is owned by the Ministry of Defense's CEO's relative by marriage. So does that mean the CEO should also be put on leave while the ministry is being audited? Here's what the PM and Minister of Defence said.
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"I have not spoken directly with him on this matter. As you know there's a bidding committee and I think that this present CEO has been doing a pretty good job in trying to hold the ministry together and I think it would be a disservice to the ministry, a disservice to the men and women in the coast guard and the BDF if we were to remove him. I think he genuinely cares for these soldiers and for the people of the coast guard and really wants to do better, how we can do better, we've been talking on ideas because the whole process, there's a problem all over, there's a problem with the bidding, there's a problem where it seems that officers, politicians, whosoever it is - the auditor general will determine that - trying to circumvent going through the contract process by keeping it at that $10,000 so there's a problem at the BDF in controlling the supplies because, listen when the UDP was there they used to buy I think about 4 million dollars a year for food, we increased it to 8 million dollars and you could ask any soldier, they are eating better than before and it angers me that all the good that we've been doing for the soldiers is shrouded with this that has happened where they're trying to circumvent the issuing of contracts so that they can pay easier."
