SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti yesterday ruled that Minister of Energy Makozo Chikote was out of order for alleging that the previous regime was corrupt without substantiating his claims. Earlier, during the questions for oral answer session, Luena UPND member of parliament Mubita Anakoka wanted to find out the structure of the late payment agreement of petroleum supply contracts. In response, Chikote said, “Madam Speaker, I can just summarise it by saying our colleagues were very corrupt, our colleagues were very corrupt, they did not have the interest of this nation.” But Shiwang’andu PF MP Stephen Kampyongo rose on a point of order, indicating that Chikote was incompetent. “Madam Speaker, as you have seen, I have been reluctantly...
