Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:01:37 +0000 Banning UPND MPs by the Speaker Dear Editor, While I fully support PF’s Julius Komaki’s sentiments and suggestions that Speaker of National Assembly Patrick Matibini should consider suspending UPND members of parliament from attending parliamentary sittings and participate in the daily business of the House for truancy and absconding Parliament for the second time in the same session, I wonder if picketing the National Assembly and blocking the UPND lawmakers from entering Parliament building by PF youths would really serve as the appropriate platform to do so. However, the suspension period of the UPND members of parliament ought to be concomitant with UPND President Hakainde Hichilema’s pronouncement that he would not give up on his presidential petition no matter how many times the courts adjourn the matter (“Ban UPND MPs, Komaki urges Speaker”, Daily Nation, March 20, 2017). Since the UPND president praised his Members of Parliament for boycotting […]
