By Staff Writer
PARLIAMENT Speaker Jacob Mudenda on Thursday ejected all Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators from the National Assembly for disrupting the swearing-in of the newly elected MPs.
The new MPs were elected in the weekend by-election following recalls by self-imposed CCC Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu.
Police were called to force the MPs out of the New Parliament building after the opposition MPs sang in protest.
Mudenda later sanctioned the CCC legislators for unruly behaviour.
“Because of your singing and misbehaviour, you are suspended for the next four sittings of the House,” Mudenda said. “They have to check out of the hotels tomorrow (today) morning and I have ruled.”
Efforts to get an official comment from CCC legislators were in vain as they refused to speak to the media.
