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The petroleum amendment bill has been criticised for creating a power vacuum over parliament, leaving the president unaccountable if passed.<\/em><\/p>\n The bill, which is now at a committee stage, is seeking to put the oil and gas sector under the Office of the President, with management by the upstream petroleum unit.<\/p>\n This takes away the powers of the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Energy.<\/p>\n Speaking in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) parliamentarian Michael Mulunga…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The petroleum amendment bill has been criticised for creating a power vacuum over parliament, leaving the president unaccountable if passed. The bill, which is now at a committee stage, is seeking to put the oil and gas sector under the Office of the President, with management by the upstream petroleum unit. This takes away the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00371441:a463ff5e91ccac19d2ee053049ed94fa:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7292,5140,4706,724,257,2412,5733,7047,254,8410],"class_list":["post-228990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-fears","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-petroleum","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vacuum"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00371441:a463ff5e91ccac19d2ee053049ed94fa:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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