Following government’s tabling of its proposed Local Content Bill in the National Assembly on Thursday, six years after the discovery of oil offshore, frontrunner for the leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton says a wider cross-section of the business community should have been consulted.
Leading up to the tabling of the bill, the government held consultations with the local private sector organisations in an effort to address concerns. However, Norton, who is running for leadership of the largest opposition party – said that the Private Sector Commission (PSC) is not representative of the wider business community and therefore consultations limited to the Commission will produce skewed results.
