And there are some who say that Hulse may have pushed the "detonate" button on Vega by investigating his conduct in the Ministry of Natural Resources. Today, the press asked him about that:...
Reporter
"Now since the resignation of Mr. Vega, there have been of course speculations naturally and one of those coming out is that there may have been some unwelcoming revelations out of the Lands Department where Mr. Vega's signature. In other words, perhaps some under the table deals that he may have done. Is there any kind of investigation ongoing or anything of that sort?"
Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Natural Resources
"No, the department is not undertaking any investigation at all. On a day to day I am interviewing a lot of people who comes to see me and are putting forward their requests for things that have been done or have not been done. I think it is public knowledge that people now within the department, there's been lots of transfers that have been duplicated. There's been title document, leases - all sorts of things and those are some of the things we are trying to straighten up. There is no investigation ongoing and so far there is nothing to point to anything that the minister himself has done."
Later on you'll hear more from Hulse when we ask him if his future as Minister of Natural Resources is tenable considering the political pressures brought to bear upon that ministry.
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