Countrywide consultations for state assets recovery bill – Harmon

Consultations on the draft State Assets Recovery Bill 2016 will be done countrywide before it is finalized and taken to the National Assembly for passage, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said on Thursday.

Given that Parliament is going into recess on August 10, Harmon could not say definitively when the finalized Bill would reach the National Assembly. Parliament is expected out of recess sometime in September.

Responding to questions during a post-Cabinet press briefing he said that the bulk of the work on the