 very serious national importance and these are to do with the manner in which parliament is running under the leadership of Dr. Patrick Mattibini and from the officers of parliament who are dealing specifically with one of the vice president who last Friday mislead the country once again as she did when she indicated a fortnight ago that the ECZ were not going to complete to do away with the current voter registration. Questions were put to her and she kept on moving back and forth giving conflicting statements on the floor of parliament which is against the rule of operation inside parliament. To be specific on Friday the honorable member of parliament for UWA and the chief whip for UBND honorable Dr. Sobatwain raised the question to do with the default on the interest for the bonds and whether Zambia was going to manage to meet that obligation which was due last Friday. She initially dodged the question but then after the leader of opposition Mr. Jack Muinbom raised that point to emphasize that the vice president needed to be categorical. She confirmed that whatever the case may be Zambia was not going to default. As it is it is public knowledge that Zambia has defaulted which means that under the privileges absences and support services and under cap 12 of the laws of Zambia her Honour the vice president has committed an offense by misleading the country. Yesterday I raised the point of order before Speaker Matt Bini to find out whether or not the vice president was in order to have misled the country on the default without coming with a personal explanation on the matter of giving false evidence on the floor of parliament. We were surprised that Speaker Matt Bini instead of giving a ruling of in or out of order his ruling was that there will be a statement today from the Minister of Finance but it's not the Minister of Finance who made that statement it was the vice president. We find that to be an anomaly. We still we have another matter where we think that Dr. Matt Bini ought to have done better and this is a very serious matter in as far as we are concerned because it has created a procedural crisis in the country in parliament and we have now reduced our complaints against Dr. Matt Bini on paper by moving a motion to challenge his ruling yesterday where on Friday rather where as last week the leader of opposition raised a point of order to find out whether or not the Secretary-General of Patriotic Front Mr. Davis Miller was in order to write a letter asking three members of parliament namely Dr. Frank Namby, Mr. Yolariyong Sonda and also Mr. Kawasaki Pampi, members of Patriotic Front, wise members of Patriotic Front who did not vote for bute. And in this letter it's quoted in part as not to be taken against them. We have precedences that have been said before where our Secretary-General here, Honourable Stephen Katukas, based on a mayor newspaper cutting, not a letter written under his hand just a mayor misquotation from the Zambia Daily Mail where the Daily Mail purported to have quoted the SG as wanting discipline Honourable Joffrey Lugwangwa MP for Narekwanda and Mr. Teddy J. Casonso MP for Sulawesi West now Kallumbila for their position on the chair. Our SG was sound by the office of the clerk and by extension with the blessings of Speaker Matibini to come and appear before the Privileges Committee and apply the same rule of 12 of the laws of Zambia that is a punishable offense for anyone to stand in the way of free conscience and action of any member of Parliament whilst performing their duties. Of course it did appear before the committee and the committee acquitted him because it was just a mere quotation which did not have substance from the Daily Mail. When Jack Mimble raised the issue of Mr. Debbie Sumila, Deputy Speaker Catherine Amgalha sitting in the chair made a ruling that in the absence of evidence which unfortunately at the time Mr. Jack Mimble did not have in the absence of evidence it was difficult for her to act on the allegations that Mr. Debbie Sumila had written a letter to censure his members of Parliament and that because of that she could not get involved in that so the ruling had echoed that should there have been evidence then to have been under her ambit according to the rules procedures that govern Parliament. I did the point of order with Speaker Matibini sitting now with evidence letters written by Mr. Debbie Sumila reprimanding or basically asking his members to exculpate themselves for following their conscience not to vote on Bill 10. I laid the evidence on the table before Dr. Matibini and in his ruling Dr. Matibini stated as follows and in court he says these letters you are bringing here are a subject of internal proceedings of a political grouping it is a work in progress I am also alive to the fact that we do not have strict rules of local standard but I'm left to wonder why we have these busy bodies. Dr. Matibini called my body busy a situation which I've not taken very kindly and I think is a sign of disrespect to a family member of Parliament and so based on his ruling which is contradictory to his deputy we've decided to move a motion and at this point in time we are submitting this letter before the clerk of the National Assembly with our intention to move this motion and the only thing we are doing now is to make sure that we have collected enough signatures a process which we have already started and unfortunately because of the COVID-19 rules we have not yet got the number of signatures from members of Parliament to accept that this matter goes before the Privilege's Committee for which we will challenge officially on the floor of Parliament Dr. Matibini's ruling because we strongly feel that he has exercised double standard in this particular ruling. We think that from where we stand Ms. Namukala, Honourable Catherine Namukala followed the procedure and the rules to the letter that in the absence of evidence there's no way she could have gotten involved in a matter such as what Honourable Mwimbu raised but I put the icing on the cake by providing this evidence which evidence Dr. Matibini said I was being a busy body I think is wrong and this is a matter that will not take with our arms folded we are going to challenge Dr. Matibini's ruling and we are very hopeful that posterity is going to judge all of us when the time comes because we cannot permit a situation where rulings are made based on who makes the point of order. As far as we are concerned if this matter does not require for Mr. Davison Wheeler to appear before Privilege's committee then Parliament must apologize to Mr. Katukam for calling him to the same committee based not on his hand or signature but based on a newspaper and we think that Mr. Katukam has been unfairly treated his time wasted by being called to the Privilege's committee on a mere allegation as reported by newspaper and yet we have a case where Mr. Davison Wheeler signed three letters under his hand to reprimand members of his party for exercising the wish of their conscience. The final thing that we want to discuss here is to do with elections again you know Mrs. Wiener came with a statement yesterday which we think was not sufficient and as UPND we will not relent and say the following that the act of ECZ extending the hours of operation to a 24-hour period in shifts is sufficient evidence that they have considered that there is a problem with this exercise. With two weeks to go plus or minus and having recorded maybe about a million voters countrywide it has become exceedingly clear that the nine million target will not be achieved and therefore as UPND we want to ask the ECZ not to take this matter as if this is a bedroom affair we as stakeholders must come all around town and look at the confusion that this has created to begin with it should be made clear that although Mrs. Wiener in yesterday's statement indicated that the ECZ are doing everything they can and prudently so to capture everyone the truth of the matter is that the ECZ are broken the very law that establishes them the Electro Processes Act number 35 of 2016 which at part seven clearly says that the ECZ shall conduct a continuous voter registration the act of phasing these registration points is enough evidence to show that they don't respect even the law that establishes them so we demand as UPND that democracy is expensive the government must make sure that they put 13 000 kids for every polling station in this whole country so that they can be a continuous voter registration for the period which they in court and court have allowed illegally because they are not supposed to even frame a time that is to be for 30 days the law which establishes them says they shall be a continuous voter registration and we are now appealing to every Zambia who will fail to register as a voter to take a legal suit against the ECZ we are asking every Zambia who will fail to register as a voter to put it in simple terms to sue the ECZ for differentising and on the day we stop we are appealing to all Zambias we are making a clerical call to all Zambias who will be left out of the voter's law to take the ECZ to court and the people that they must take to court that they must see go out is Mr Cretaceous Shidani, Ms. Emel Skazel and also Justice Churu these should be taken to court to answer to the charge of differentising Zambia because this is not a game they are treating it as a game a kindergarten game and as far as we are concerned we would like every Zambia who has reached a voting age to cast their vote next year thank you I have a question so far ECZ has actually reported 1.1 million voters in a week do you think that's a good sign? What I said when you stepped out was that 1.1 million voters not in a week in 10 days the report came yesterday yesterday was dates eight or nine 1.1 against the target of 9 million where they have moved now the first phase they left huge and if we take a million voters times four weeks if you call it a week it comes to four million already the indicators are that they're going to leave everyone different child and this is why we are appealing now that already the signs of the times are showing that we will not capture everyone and so those who will not be captured we are encouraging them to sue Justice Churu Mr. Sikazue, Mr. Simunga, Mr. Critisha Shidano as a commission and also in their personal capacities as people who make the decision and drive the processes at ECZ bearing in mind that this is a one case because the ECZ have already abrogated the very law which establishes them the Electro Processes Act number 35 of 2016 which says the ECZ shall conduct a continuous voter registration so this whole process should have started in 2016 there would have been no commotion today of people look Israeli they want people to go and vote to register at 3 a.m they are putting people in harm's way there is the security risk in this country they are in high poverty levels many people don't drive they are putting even their own officials who they are putting into this polling station that may be isolated in harm's way because there's a lot of crime that is going on in this country I hope I've answered your question