Speaker Manzoor Nadir has said that concerns raised about a “slashing” of the budget for the Office of the Leader of the Opposition (OLO) stemmed from a miscommunication by Parliament Office staff.
“The communication from the National Assembly staff to the Leader of the Opposition was totally incorrect because the opposition office budget over the years has been incrementally increasing from $30 million to $31 million to $32 million. They communicated that it was $84 million and nowhere in this government is any department, agency or line item moving to [a] 200% increase, so it was a big error on whoever communicated that to the Leader of the Opposition,” Nadir told Stabroek News on Friday.
