PETAUKE Central MP Pauline Banda has urged the public to judge her by her own conduct and performance. Banda says she respects the contributions of those who previously held the seat but wants to be given an opportunity to prove herself as an individual with her own ideas and plans for the constituency. Delivering her maiden speech in the National Assembly, Friday, Banda said she had not entered Parliament to settle political scores but to address the challenges facing the people of Petauke Central. She acknowledged the contributions of former MPs Dora Siliya, Emmanuel Jay Banda and Simon Banda, but stressed that she wanted her time in office to be judged on its own merits. “I acknowledge our traditional leaders...