$70K Advisor Hire Raises Eyebrows—Are Other Ministries Doing the Same?

Last night, we told you about a new advisor being brought on board at the Ministry of Home Affairs—retired police officer Aaron Guzman, hired at a cost of seventy thousand dollars to taxpayers. Minister Kareem Musa defended the move, saying advisory contracts like this are common across the public service. So today, we took that claim to another ministry. We asked Natural Resources Minister Cordel Hyde—do his CEOs have advisors too? 

 

Paul Lopez

“Sir does your CEO has a special advisor that is getting seventy thousand annually?”

 

Cordel Hyde, Minister of Natural Resources

“No, don’t give him any ideas, no.”

 

Paul Lopez

“As a senior politician, why would a CEO need an advisor if they are being placed in such an authoritative role?”

 

Cordel Hyde

“I don’t know, I cannot speak to that. I have never been a CEO. But what I can say is that the job of governance is much different than when I was first around twenty-five years ago. It is heavy lifting, a lot of work. But I cant speak to that.”