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Page 159 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 Q In recusing yourself from process as you stated before, would you consider it inappropriate for you to have signed your brother's Offer Letter? A It would not be inappropriate because I am the manager, so at no point did I make any interference to that point as to even putting it together or anything like that. I would have had to sign it nevertheless. CHAIRMAN: In signing it you would have been privy however to the interview record? A No. Q So are you saying that once the General Manager says to hire - A So let me be a little bit clear with that. The process for hiring, once interviews are conducted then there is a recommendation that is given and that is handled by the Unit, the HR Officer, the Manager, whoever; and then this is put together, the Offer Letter is put together for signing and I -- and I am just going to tell you what obtains -- I would have asked to see if -- I would asked the officer just to make sure that there are some clauses that are present in the document, and one such that I insist on is the -- I usually insist -- in terms of arbitration for our short-term hires, just in case there are any disputes that might arise with employment, we usually make sure that that is stated. So there are times when an Offer Letter is constructed or put together and there might be one or two paragraphs that I might catch. So for argument sake, for the arbitration