(Kaieteur News) – Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir has criticised opposition parliamentarians, claiming that a recent controversy regarding parliamentary committee allocations was an engineered “set up” designed to spark a media storm over nothing.

While all parties, We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), and the government, successfully placed members on the various committees, a point of contention arose regarding Amanza Walton, leader of the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM).

Both WIN and APNU attempted to nominate Walton to some of the committees, but the Chairperson of the Committee of Selection, Manzoor Nadir refused the nomination. Nadir explained that based on the official formula used to calculate eligibility, Walton did not receive the necessary number of votes to qualify for nomination to any of the bodies.