The draft legislation for the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) is still being looked at by the World Bank, according to Attorney General Basil Williams who said yesterday that that process is almost complete.
“I think it is almost out of the pipeline”, he said when asked for an update yesterday. He had moments earlier handed over the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report to the Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland.
Asked to be specific in terms of a time period, he said that he is not sure. He said it has not yet reached the AG’s chambers and that the information is that “the World Bank really hasn’t concluded its examination of the relevant bill”.
A meeting was held in January with a World Bank/United Nations team on the proposed legislation.
