Gov’t moving to change make-up of parliamentary oversight committees

The APNU+AF​C government is moving to change the composition of key oversight parliamentary committees to reflect its majority.

As separate opposition forces that controlled the last Parliament, APNU and AFC had in 2012 changed the composition of the four sectoral committees to reflect their majority. As a result, they amended the Standing Orders to cater for each sectoral committee to comprise three members of the then minority PPP/C government and four members of the opposition.

Now in government with a majority, the APNU+AFC alliance is seeking to