Guyanese must see ExxonMobil disputed audit cost

(Kaieteur News) – A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament (MP) Sharma Solomon has ripped into the argument by the Government of Guyana (GoG) that secrecy on the audits of ExxonMobil protects the interest of citizens.

In a response to a letter to the editor, by the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), the MP argued that “silence is not protection. It is a failure of accountability by this government!”

He said that government “wants Guyanese to believe that its silence on the US$19.6 billion ExxonMobil audit is somehow protecting the national interest. That argument does not stand up to scrutiny. Silence is not transparency, and keeping Guyanese who are owners of the nation’s oil in the dark is not a strategy for protecting their interests.”