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APNU wants parliament, committees convened for scrutiny of spending, planning
(Kaieteur News) – The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is calling on the government to quickly convene the next sitting of the national assembly to allow for proper scrutiny of the spending and the plans being implemented.
Member of Parliament, Ganesh Mahipaul called for a published midterm fiscal framework that is aligned with programmatic commitments.
Member of Parliament, Ganesh Mahipaul.
Noting that the government has a history of planning and budgeting failures, Mahipaul has also urged the “strengthening of parliamentary scrutiny, including prompt release of supporting costings and sensitivity analysis and…a public register of major projects and their procurement status to reduce uncertainty and corruption risk. In other words, put parliament and its various committees in place as the constitution dictates.”
Opposition MP and leader of Forward Movement Guyana (FMG), Amanza Walton-Desir, had also recently demanded the immediate reconvening of parliament and activation of key oversight committees, as the political deadlock over the swearing-in of new opposition leader Azruddin Mohamed drags on.
In a forceful social media statement on Sunday, Walton-Desir warned that the paralysis in the National Assembly is eroding the country’s credibility and putting citizens at risk. She also called for the Speaker Manzoor Nadir to call the meeting for the election of Mohamed, leader of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN).
“I’m asking a serious question, how are we to be taken seriously when we have a parliament that will deliberately not meet to appoint a leader of the opposition? How are we to be taken seriously when we are on the verge of such a shift geopolitically, and we do not have a foreign relations sectoral committee meeting so that we can go and in a bipartisan manner, continue to help the people of Guyana to remain calm, because panic is not going to serve anybody,” she stated.
The opposition parliamentarian stressed that the refusal to convene committees jeopardises public safety. Walton-Desir said, “Do we understand why people take us for granted? Because we take ourselves for granted, and we take our safety for granted, and we take the affairs of this nation for granted. What is more sad for me is that there are Guyanese who chair that posture on, ‘oh yes, don’t convene no committee for them’ not understanding that they’re endangering and jeopardising themselves.”
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