KAMFINSA PF MP Christopher Kang’ombe says parliamentarians are not supposed to doze in Parliament but debate and push forward the agenda of the people they are representing. Members of parliament had a field day making fun of the Deputy Speaker last week when he dozed off during debate in the House, prompting some members of the opposition to raise a point of order. And on Thursday, 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. But in her immediate ruling, Speaker of the National Assembly Nelly Mutti discouraged members of parliament...

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