In his letter to SHEFA board chairwoman Felicidad T. Ogumoro, Sablan expressed his disappointment and frustration with what he described as an unresponsive, unintelligible and professionally unacceptable document.
“The submission fails to address, with any substance or sincerity, the concerns raised in the OPA review,” Sablan said. “It instead embarks on a specious 46-page tirade, so poorly written and teeming with rhetorical nonsense, grammatical errors, and run-on sentences that gleaning any actual meaning from its text is difficult, if not impossible.”
Sablan wants to know if public funds were expended in drafting the SHEFA submission.
He said it would be imprudent for OPA to expend further government time and resources toward interpreting the “incoherent” submission.
According to Sablan, OPA is treating the submission as non-responsive and will provide SHEFA with an additional 15 days from the receipt of the letter to provide a response to OPA’s review.
“OPA will similarly not entertain a future submission if it fails to address, in substance, the concerns raised in the OPA review or it fails, in form, to conform to minimum standards of professional correspondence,” Sablan told Ogumoro.
OPA, in its review of the program, stated that SHEFA did not operate in a fiscally prudent manner and did not comply with CNMI procurement regulations when it procured professional service contracts.
OPA recommended the transfer of the SHEFA program administration from the Saipan mayor’s office to the CNMI Scholarship Office.
