PPP scoffs at reports that billions siphoned off annually

The PPP today ridiculed reports in various sections of the media that billions of dollars had been siphoned off annually while it was in government.
The PPP statement follows:
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has noted with interest the recent absurd claims about hundreds of billions of dollars being siphoned off annually.
The mere absurdity of this statement should be obvious too all. In a country where the national budget is $200 billion, the mere illogicality and impracticality of $500 billion being siphoned off every year should be obvious to all. The de facto APNU/AFC government can provide no sensible explanation of where this money was being sourced, how it was being siphoned off, and by whom and to whom. Put simply, where did this $500 billion a year come from, how was it siphoned off, who siphoned it off, where did it go, and who benefited from it?
The simple fact of the matter is that the APNU/AFC is now caught with a serious problem on their hands. Never having intended to deliver any of the promises in their manifesto, they now need to concoct an explanation as to why they will not be meeting those promises. As a result, they are now making the most outrageously absurd claims, with one aim in mind, to justify their total and complete failure to deliver on any of their false and empty promises.
The plain truth is that the political dishonesty of the de facto APNU/AFC government is about to be disclosed by their failure to deliver any of their first 100 day promises. And the stage is being carefully for this great betrayal to be perpetrated on the Guyanese people.