GPZ CALLS FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER, DEPUTY SPEAKERS & CLERK

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Nelly Muti

GPZ CALLS FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER, DEPUTY SPEAKERS & CLERK

…. Parliament has sunk to historical low levels.

28th March, 2024

The decorum and dignity of the Zambian Parliament has been lost. The House is no longer handling the people’s business, it has now become the battle ground of pettiness, personal egos and fixing political enemies.

Golden Party of Zambia, GPZ calls for the resignation of the Speaker, Hon Nelly Mutti, 1st Deputy Speaker, Hon Malungo Chisangano and 2nd Deputy Speaker, Hon Moses Moyo and the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Roy Ngulube.

The rot currently going on in the People’s House falls squarely on the arrogance and impunity of these presiding officers and the clerk. This August House is not in order and it must be challenged without political bias.

The UPND being the majority, in consultation with opposition and independent members of parliament in the House must nominate new office bearers that will return the decorum and dignity to the People’s House, our Parliament.

Silavwe Jackson
President
GPZ

8 COMMENTS

  1. Wishful thinking … kikikiki
    Just advise unruly Parliamentarians to be civil and stop abusing their freedoms to misbehave!
    It was very disappointing to see Mundubile of all people to misbehave like that in Parliament!
    When you are addressed as Honourable, even your behavior must show!
    Unfortunately, we are coming from a regime where even horribles were addressed as Honourable, my foot!
    It’s not Honourable to abuse the dignity of the Speaker just because she is a woman. And when she hits back hard, you start complaining?
    Just behave yourselves as mature and civil, dignified persons!
    Control your infectious anger and emotions!
    You can debate dispassionately without lowering the dignity of Parliament!
    You can also agree to disagree without getting too personal!
    Have some level of Emotional Intelligence!
    If you are finding debates too hot, resign
    The Bible says Anger resides in the blossom of fools! (Proverbs 29:11).
    The Bible also says make no friendship with a short tempered person (Proverbs 22:24-25).
    In this era of Social media, you cannot afford to make yourself a viral fool!
    It’s very easy to destroy your reputation because of lack of Self-control!
    Don’t be incontinent!

  2. You silavwe firstly your party only has three members, you namaT yobe yabili. And three of you are not Members of Parliament. None of you are even councellors. None of you have ever been voted not even in your party for crying out loud! Who or what do you think you are to start talking about Parliament????

  3. It’s not about the Speaker but the opposition parliamentarians themselves. If the Speaker NM has suspended MPs more than the entire of Parliament, then we should be worried because it also us that we have some of the most indiscipline and disorderly opposition MPs in the history of Parliament. Most of them want to take advantage because she is a female speaker but indiscipline and disorder in the house will not be tolerated. If it means suspending disorderly MPs everyday or every week, then let it be so until sanity is restored in the house.

  4. Citizen you are quite right. The opposition MP went to Parliament with a lot of arrogance. Balechimona, now that is back firing on them.
    The question is why now? Outrightly its the MP’s.
    Tu Mnir Zulu, kwati ka bema mbanje, JJ bandit monga akumwa kachasu balimowela.
    Next time, please Lumezi and Petauke have better choices. What have these MP’s even done for their constiencies?

  5. Parliament has lost it s dignity because of the opposition behaving like they are at a football game. No respect for the house or speaker. It has become a circus of clowns.

  6. The decorum and dignity of parliament will not be maintained by the Speaker or his/her deputies. This responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the members of parliament themselves.

    The quality of most PF MPs leaves much to be desired. Garbage in, garbage out. Just to give two examples, there was a clip of Mr. Munir Zulu, the current MP for Lumezi exchanging blows with a traffic policeman just after Mr. Lungu came to power. Of course he suffered no punishment. He also engaged in an exchange of insults with the Kantanshi? MP Mr. Mumba in an audio clip that went viral on social media. He also made some vulgar remarks in parliament about MPs shaving their pu**c hair. Not surprising, he has been suspended for breaches in parliament.

    The other example I will give is the Petauke Central MP. This gentleman urinated in a Post Newspaper reporter’s mouth and almost had the man burnt with petrol. He went on to raid Lusaka Central Police station with a gun, beat up the police and went into “hiding”. When the law caught up with him, he was just fined because of his powerful connections with the then PF ruling party. He too has had to be punished because of breaches in parliament.

    Now, if you have characters like this as MPs, how can you honestly expect order and decorum in the house? The problem Mr. Silavwe, is not the Speaker or her deputies. It is the extremely low calibre of PF MPs.

    When UPND were in opposition, we did not have this level of disorder in parliament. Clearly, PF MPs are having a torrid time being in the opposition. They still think they are in power and should be allowed to get away with gross misconduct.

  7. Boss,slow down and listen you are a handsome young man and your mind should also demonstrate that kind of a critical thinker.Don’t just join people with mob psychology they don’t seem to know that they are disadvantaging their electorates in their constituencies and even beyond.They are swayed by outsiders and start fighting wars which they don’t know.The speaker is the presiding officer and if a member asks to say “is honourable member in order”,depending on given situation and the Speaker can decline or reserve the rulling or immediately counsel the concerned Mp.In parliament there is a committee which is comprising of members from all parties which looks at discipline of wanting members now you amaze me.Why do you want to paint the speaker black as if the decisions taken there are a one man show.I personally remain amazed, astounded, perplexed, astounded and flabbergasted at your thinking.Be mindful the young people are watching and they are not clogged with tribalism,nepotism or gender, they will judge some people harshly.You know that even those in rural Zambia have already known this new dirty formula.It is filthy, pathetic and rigmarole.Therefore resigning is neither here nor there,nay.Okonjo Iweala once said corruption is not easy to fight these are culminations of corruption where people stop using their eyes even when they can surely see.

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