BREAKING: Amendments to Natural Resource Fund Act passed

BREAKING: Amendments to Natural Resource Fund Act passed
10-year imprisonment penalty if the Finance Minister does not reveal that oil monies have been received, after at least three months of receiving those revenues.

Aside from the jail-time proposal, the other amendments include revamping the NRF oversight committee which comprises 22 organisations, and establishing a Board of Directors that separates the subject Minister and the Management of the Fund.

A simpler mathematical formula that the “complex” formula used for the NRF is also being proposed to determine how the money accumulated will be saved and spent.

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