Attorney General refuses to attend parliament committee regarding revenue bills
29 Jan 2014, 12:23 PM
Mariyath Mohamed
Attorney General Mohamed Anil has refused to attend the parliamentary committee tasked with reviewing revenue bills after being summoned to a meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
The rejection letter sent to the parliament secretariat argued that the bill of amendments to the Tourism Act and T-GST [Tourism Goods and Services Tax] bills include policies compiled by the Economic and Youth Council of the cabinet.
Anil stated that the only role played by the Attorney General’s Office had been to draft the bills as directed by the council.
“As this office has no comments to make on the content of these bills at this moment, I respectfully inform you that I excuse my office from sending staff to attend the meeting we have been invited to,” a parliament official quoted the letter as saying.
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