Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:54:30 +0000 By ANNIE ZULU WE WILL continue boycotting President Edgar Lungu’s address to Parliament, UPND party Whip Garry Nkombo has vowed. Mr Nkombo, who is Mazabuka Central MP, also stated that the UPND had no regrets for boycotting the address by President Lungu. On Tuesday, the Speaker suspended 48 UPND Members of Parliament for 30 days for missing President Edgar Lungu’s Parliament address early this year. But in an interview with the Daily Nation yesterday, Mr Nkombo described the Speaker’s ruling as an insult to the people who voted for the suspended UPND MPs. He said there was no provision in the Standing Orders which compels MPs to be present during a Presidential address. The MPs had boycotted President Lungu’s State of the Nation address on grounds that they did not recognise him, hence could not listen to someone whose election was a subject of petition in the courts. In […]
