Permit me on behalf of the Joint Consultative Council to address Attorney General Faris Al-Rawiâs statement via a news conference on Monday. First, we agree that only Clause 5 of the Amendment Bill makes a tangible difference to the original act in seeking to amend Clause 7. To clarify, the AG is correct that the OPR still has oversight on the disposal of public property, and it is unfortunate that some commentators have misinterpreted the removal of Clause (o) from Section 13 (1) of the act via Amendment Bill Clause 6. The AG states repeatedly in his discourse, however, that the Government has aggressively pursued the implementation of the procurement legislation and he laid the blame squarely at the feet of the former president for not appointing the Regulator until 2018. We need to inform the public that the fact is that it was the civil society groups, including the JCC, that pursued the former president on this matter. If this Government was so eager, why was there no Government liaison with President Carmona as early as 2016 to get the OPR appointed by the President? Two years were wasted because of this lack of interest on the part of the Government.