Home Ministry’s $11.8B budget approved without single opposition question

The consideration of the $11.8 billion allocation for the Ministry of Home Affairs was completed in “record” time last Thursday night and the combined opposition opted to remain silent throughout the exercise.

Both APNU and the AFC have expressed no confidence in the subject Minister Clement Rohee and have passed a motion in the National Assembly to his effect.

Throughout the consideration of the estimates by the Committee of Supply, Rohee appeared unaffected by the opposition’s stance. Not a single question was asked even though Rohee ensured the heads of several police divisions, the fire chief, the acting prison director and Chairman of the