AS the country mourns former president Edgar Lungu, members of parliament took Ichimbuya (Tribal Cousinship) to the National Assembly. The act is a common traditional practice which involves sprinkling of powder on mourners by their tribal cousins. Yesterday Chama North Member of Parliament Yotam Mtayachalo requested the Speaker of National Assembly’s intervention through a point of order regarding sprinkling powder in parliament by his Bemba counterparts, Nkana MP Binwell Mpundu and Mpika Central MP Robert Kapyanga. “Madam Speaker I rarely rise on a point of order, I think this is the second point of order that I am raising. Madam Speaker, this point of order is directed to honourable member of parliament for Nkana Constituency and honourable member of parliament...

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