{"id":25892,"date":"2025-02-01T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25892"},"modified":"2025-02-01T18:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:28:51","slug":"president-ali-calls-out-opposition-over-false-claims-about-the-natural-resources-fund-nrf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-ali-calls-out-opposition-over-false-claims-about-the-natural-resources-fund-nrf\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali Calls Out Opposition Over False Claims About the Natural Resources Fund (NRF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Radha Motielall<\/em><br><em>December 18, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has strongly criticized the political opposition for what he described as the &#8220;falsification of facts&#8221; regarding the management of the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) under his administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the allegations on social media, President Ali referred to the opposition&#8217;s claims of government abuse of oil revenues as an attempt to mislead the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, he pointed to letters published in the media accusing the government of mismanaging the NRF. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his defense, the President highlighted that it was under the previous APNU\/AFC government that an unlawful NRF Act was enacted following the passing of the No-confidence motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reminded the public that during that time, there was significant financial mismanagement, yet none of the current critics had spoken out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali emphasized that his administration has operated within the framework of Guyana\u2019s constitution, showing the contrast in governance between his government and the APNU\/AFC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon assuming office, President Ali&#8217;s administration amended the NRF Act to ensure greater governance, enhanced transparency, and increased parliamentary oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concluded by accusing those attempting to discredit his government&#8217;s actions of spreading misinformation and distorting the truth for political gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Radha MotielallDecember 18, 2024 President Dr. Irfaan Ali has strongly criticized the political opposition for what he described as the &#8220;falsification of facts&#8221; regarding the management of the Natural&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25893,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions\/25893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}