By NATION REPORTER PATRIOTIC Front (PF) Members of Parliament have given Speaker of the National Assembly a 48 hours ultimatum to reverse her decision, threatening to declare Emmanuel Jay Banda’s Seat vacant after seven days, failure to which, the MPs will have no option but to sue the presiding officer. The PF law makers have threatened to take legal action against Ms Mutti for unconstitutionally and illegally threatening to declare Jay Jay Banda’s Petauke Seat vacant when she has no authority or mandate to make such a decision. In a petition signed by several PF law makers last evening, the Legislators says they are shocked and appalled that Speaker Mutti could brazenly elect to abrogate Parliamentary Standing Orders governing the process of disciplining an absentee law maker by purporting that should would declare the Petauke Seat vacant after seven days should Mr Banda fail to return to Parliament. “We hasten to state that if we […]
