Sports Minister Glenn Blakeney has hit back at criticism for his decision to appoint a Commission of Inquiry to review how Bermuda Football Association (BFA) and Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) spent the millions they have received from Government in recent years.The report submitted to the Minister the Commission of Inquiry concluded that neither the BFA nor BCB had any case to answer over their use of the millions of taxpayers’ cash.But after the Commission’s findings, Blakeney came under fire from Shadow Sports Minister Donte Hunt who branded the entire process as “redundant” and accused Government of being reckless with the public’s purse.In response to the backlash, Blakeney defended his decision to appoint the Commission and accused Hunt of seizing the moment to politicise and pour cold water upon an endeavour he felt would benefit the two national sports in years to come.“He basically impugned the process and impugned the people that were involved only because it was expedient for him to do so,” he said. “Why throw negative on a report that was done in the air of transparency?“This was something that did not cost the public purse and the Board of Inquiry volunteered their services to look below the layers at the funding and other issues a number of which were raised that were not within the remit of the Board.”Blakeney said the Commission of Inquiry enabled the BFA and BCB to highlight major challenges they faced notwithstanding the funds that were allocated and to bring it all into the public domain.“For a lack of a better term he (Hunt) based his overall comments on an act of futility which is far from true because the exercise was one that took on an air of transparency as a result of a lot of misinformation, insinuations and accusations regarding how the allocated funds to our two national sports governing bodies was used and if they were used for the intended purposes,” he added.“They (Opposition) talk about that all the time and if we as a Government would have just came out and said ‘there’s nothing to worry about; here’s what was done with the money’ then they would have said ‘that’s the Government again looking to defend itself and its decisions’.“It’s like damn if you do and damn if you don’t and what we have to do is make tough decisions and govern to the best of our individual and collective ability in making the kind of decisions that we make when it comes time to sharing the information that we have become more transparent in sharing with the general public.”Blakeney said he never suspected the BFA and BCB of any wrongdoing with the funding they received from Government.“I stated from the outset that it was not a witch hunt and that we were quite satisfied that the national sports governing bodies were in full compliance but we wanted to find out if what was done could’ve been done better,” he added.Blakeney also dismissed Hunt’s assertion that the public did not receive bang for their buck for the millions invested in the two national sports.“I think we did get bang for a buck, number one in the development of our young athletes involved in the two national sports has been complemented highly by the international sports governing bodies FIFA and the ICC on our junior programmes,” he said.