The Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report was tabled in the National Assembly on Thursday and Speaker Dr. Barton Scotland rejected appeals from the opposition PPP/C for the report to be sent to a parliamentary select committee for scrutiny.
The report was handed over on Wednesday, one day before a motion on the delay in the report being presented to the National Assembly was to be debated. The handing over the report was seen as a move by the government to obviate a vote in the House, which could have seen a division among the two partners, APNU and the AFC.
Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira had filed the motion, which would have sparked the debate. Following government’s impromptu handover of the document, Teixeira on Thursday sought to make an amendment to the motion in her name for the report to be sent to a Parliamentary Special Select Committee.