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‘A Partnership of National Unity’ (APNU), in a statement, on September 16, 2023, said Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo must be immediately removed from handling the nation’s oil and gas resources. The release further stated that Guyanese are alarmed over the news of the government’s flagrant and scandalous mishandling of the audit of ExxonMobil’s expenditure for the period 1999 to 2017.
They flayed the explanations offered by Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat and VP Jagdeo, saying it “at best exposed their ineptitude and dereliction and, at worst, point to probable criminality.”
The APNU release outlined that any responsible person with a modicum of common sense would, on receipt of a report on the slashing of ExxonMobil Guyana Limited’s questionable expenses from US$214M to US$3M, seek further information or clarification on the matter.
“But not VP Bharrat Jagdeo. He informed the nation that he accepted the report at face value and had no concerns, and sought no explanations. This is negligence and malfeasance of the highest order.” Going further, APNU noted, “But worse, such negligence and malfeasance could lead to the loss of billions of dollars of public funds.”
Warning that Guyana has traveled this road before with VP Jagdeo, evidence of this was pointed out in the Skeldon Sugar Factory Modernization Project, the Fiber Optic Cable Project, and Su-Gate “have starkly exposed his incapabilities.” He is out of his depth, and “the nation distrusts him.” The APNU release stated. The release further stated that APNU therefore calls for the immediate removal of Bharrat Jagdeo from the handling of all the country’s oil and gas matters, stating “Enough is enough!”
