Seventy-four days later…Speaker yet to provide update on Opposition’s gas to shore motion

Speaker Manzoor Nadir

Citing his assertions of impartiality and lack of bias, APNU+AFC  Member of Parliament David Patterson has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly reminding him that they are yet to receive word on the fate of the October 27, 2021 motion relating to the proposed gas-to-shore project.

According to Patterson, who served as Minister of Public Infrastructure under the David Granger administration, House Speaker Manzoor Nadir is yet to give a decision relating to the motion that was submitted 74 days ago.

“Based on your publicly stated position ‘it is my duty as Speaker of the National Assembly to ensure that the business of the National Assembly is conducted in a fair, transparent, and orderly manner and this I will do to the end of my tenure’, it is my expectation that my Motion will be approved in the shortest possible time in accordance with the principles of fairness, transparency, and good order,” Patterson said in his January 08, 2022 letter to Nadir.