Busuttil should shoulder responsibility if Gatt keeps refusing to speak - PM

PN leader Simon Busuttil should shoulder responsibility if former Minister Austin Gatt keeps refusing to speak on the oil procurement scandal, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this morning. Replying to questions by Dorothy Falzon on One Radio, Dr Muscat said that the fact that Dr Gatt was no longer in Parliament did not exclude him from accountability. Dr Muscat said that as he had replied on matters which had taken place in the 1980s, because that was his responsibility as leader and so should Dr Busuttil. The former ministers should also shoulder the political inheritance Dr Gatt left behind even in view of the fact that they had defended him when a motion of no confidence had been moved against him. Dr Muscat praised Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi’s initiative to request the police commissioner to investigate. “We are expecting the police to bring people to justice, because the country cannot allow people to make a mess of the people’s money and it’s as if nothing happened. “People should be accountable for their actions,” he said. Dr Muscat insisted that the government was committed to continue coming up with initiatives that would create employment. Such initiatives included...