John Ryan
As questions abound, surrounding the absence of any pronouncements or information as promised/required, following word that the MDC Task Force Review has been completed and report delivered, Mr. John E. Ryan, chairman of the MDC board until the entire Board was dismissed in December submitted to the media the following letters. See in boxes
His email cover to the letters reads: “As you may be aware a GoM/DFID Task Force has just submitted a report on the options available for the operation of MDC going forward. As the immediate Past Chairman of the Corporation I was requested to meet with the Task Force to discuss the matter. As my board and I were booted from office for alleged financial irregularities on the back of a DFID Internal Audit that has subsequently been discovered to contain no evidence or mention of the so-called financial irregularities,
“I responded to the Task Force’s request to meet with them with a letter that set out the conditions under which I would attend such a meeting. Recently, the Governor in one of his frequent Press Conferences, in a response to a question from a member of the Press Corps said ” that there was nothing sinister going on at MDC”.— whatever that means.
“The Task Force chose not to respond to my letter therefore I did not meet with them. I have however decided to make my letter to the Task Force available to the public as there is clearly a need for the public to have knowledge of what is transpiring in this beloved land of ours.”
During the review (February 26, 2015) the new MDC Chairman Mr. Julian Daniel wrote to Mr. Ryan:
Mr. Ryan responded:
