In what can only be described as an unprecedented move to derail the Parliamentary process, opposition APNU+AFC MPs attempted to seize the Speaker’s Mace last night as part of their effort to stop the passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) bill.
The APNU+AFC Parliamentarians were scattered throughout the House chanting “no thieving bill must pass” while blaring whistles in an effort to drown out the presentation of Senior Minister in the Office of the President with the responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh.
Singh is the one that presented the bill for second reading on the floor just after 7 pm. The Opposition and a range of civil society voices had been calling for the bill, which seeks to repeal the Natural Resources Fund Act of 2019, to be sent to a special select committee for debate and consultations.
