Opposition protecting drug lords, launderers – Rohee

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee yesterday charged that opposition parties are withholding support for the anti-money laundering bill to protect drug lords and money launderers.

When asked to provide proof of the allegations he would only say that the evidence was in the opposition’s  resistance to furthering the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-ing the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill as exemplified by their walk out of a meeting of the anti-money laundering select committee on Monday.

Speaking at a PPP press conference at Freedom House, he said “the opposition parties in the National Assembly are protecting the