The Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament says that the failure of the government to undertake an audit of US$9.5b in ExxonMobil’s expenditure is a glaring example of its real position on transparency, accountability and good governance.
In a comment to Stabroek News on the revelation made last week by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, the Chair of the PAC, Jermaine Figueira said yesterday: “All the talks the now government had pre 2020 about ExxonMobil and their promise to change the contract, was just that, talks. Nothing they promised to do to ExxonMobil and that contract was done and quite frankly, the government’s attitude to this new form of economic colonialism (is that) nothing will be done”.
Figueira, a Member of Parliament for APNU+AFC, said that Jagdeo’s disclosure at a press conference last week was more of a “mixture of an academic and political response to evade the failure of the government to make right the combined failure of both administrations (APNU+AFC and PPP/C) for the benefit of the Guyanese people”.
