Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:50:34 +0000 By JACKSON MAPAPAYI THE 48 United Party for National Development (UPND) members of Parliament deserve being suspended from Parliament for boycotting the state of the nation address, ruling Patriotic Front in North-Western Province has charged. In his ruling on Tuesday regarding the decision by opposition MPs to abscond the address (SONA) by President Edgar Lungu, Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Patrick Matibini found the 48 UPND MPs guilty. In an interview with the Daily Nation, PF provincial youth vice chairperson Jackson Kungo said the decision by the Speaker was commendable because the behaviour of the MPs was inexplicable and unjustifiable. He said the MPs should stop leaving in denial but face reality and accept that President Lungu is the Head of State because they all swore their allegiance to him (President Lungu). “If anything, what they did was tantamount to disloyalty, disobedient and also violated their […]
