SPEAKER of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti yesterday discouraged members of parliament from raising points of order against their dozing colleagues, saying they can just gently wake them up. This was after Chiengi Independent MP Given Katuta rose on a point of order wondering whether her Mulobezi counterpart was in order to sleep in the House when Minister of Water Development and Sanitation Mike Mposha was rendering a ministerial statement. “Thank you, Madam Speaker, and thank you for allowing the people of Chiengi to raise this important point of order. Madam Speaker, this is a House of decorum and I just want through you, Madam Speaker, to raise a point of order on a UPND member of parliament for Mulobezi,...

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