 Ladies and gentlemen, from yesterday, members of parliament from the pier have been staging a siren protest, a protest to have styled as the Nixon-Chilangwa sitting protest. This is the Nixon-Chilangwa sitting protest. This protest was necessitated by the manner in which the house has been, or is being handled. It's been two years, our sitting has been of opposition and indeed the whips. We've had a lot of pressure from the members concerning the treatments that they are receiving, they've been receiving from the house. We've tried in the background to engage the presiding officer. Clearly, nothing has changed. Members of parliament are responsible citizens. They are representatives of the people. That is why there are only 156 such individuals elected out of almost 20 million people. And to come to parliament, to be reduced to a schoolboy, because comrade Moses Moyo feels so powerful and he thinks he can just be pointing at him and sit down, stand up, don't talk, simply an accent. Sitting as a member of parliament, he said, comrade Moyo, you must remind. We are senior members of that parliament, we've been in that parliament. And we're hoping that by now you could have learned how to handle members of parliament. Ladies and gentlemen, in the last parliament, I was privileged to say as government chief, what I remember, that most of you remember, is that discipline of the house was mostly channeled to them. Speaker Matibini, who always called upon the way he sweeps, can we have order in the house? Speaker Matibini did not find it necessary to engage members directly. He respected the established channels of handling the house. And those channels, if you go and read in our study on it, what the functions of the whips are, their job is to maintain discipline. And the reason why it's been like that in our commonwealth parliament is to ensure that members of parliament are respected. Coding out to names of members of parliament by the presiding officer is a new practice that we are seeing only in this parliament. It doesn't exist anywhere. It's not very long ago, I'm sure, if you refresh your memories. Speaker Matibini will always say, whips maintain order, can we ensure that we have order in the house? It's because if the presiding officers demand order and decorum in the house, it must start the presiding officers. It was not very long ago I was having a chat with somebody who had gone to the Gandham parliament. When they came back, we were having a casual chat. The people in Uganda, MPs in Uganda, who were chatting with our members of parliament that included UPND members of parliament, described our parliament as a most useless parliament. I didn't want to talk about this, but that's how we are viewed on the outside. And why did they call parliament useless? They said members of parliament have no freedom in that parliament. For those of you that speak elementary French, like I do, parliament comes from the word parlay to speak. Members of parliament come to that house just to speak and represent the people. Like Honourable Kapiangat pointed out, we don't bring more advanced views or ideas. We speak on behalf of the people that related us. Now can you imagine, you're coming with 50,000, 60,000 voters behind you. And because Comrade Monizmoyle does not like your hairstyle that much. He doesn't want you to speak, he just says sit down. For how long, colleagues, are we going to go on like that? Members of parliament asked me, they said you want us to go and debate, talk about what? With all the research that we have done, we can only take one Monizmoyle over the president officer to interrupt at every juncture. But guess what we did? What we agreed was for us to me present a clear case to the Zambian people. Can we allow only the UPND members of parliament to participate so that we see whether the speaker will interrupt any of them? And there it is, they played in our thoughts. Did you watch parliament today? We had members of parliament giving foundations and backgrounds to the question. Even up to three minutes, an interrupted. Did you hear the president officer stopping any member to say no, go to your question. And this leads to the case of biasness and mistreatment of PF members of parliament or opposition members of parliament. Let me just remind you. Four days ago, my dear sister and friend, comrade to Ishikasa and the Minister of Information, first was given a ruling in a matter that happened some time back where it was alleged that she is suspected, madam speaker. We remember what happened on that day. She walked across the floor and waved her hand against the president officer, went against any form of guidance and walked through the door. Total disregard of the house. Did you see what happens to her? She was merely reprimanded from her seat. Are we together? Four days ago, check your facts. Given Katuta, first a similar offense. Today, given Katuta's been given seven days. She was called to stand behind the bar and she's been sent out for seven days. It's the same parliament, same standing orders and same rules, different treatment. So when the members are saying we are being treated, what happened today? Thank God, in the case of Katuta and indeed parliamentary business throughout this morning. No one was interrupted. Kawata member of parliament stood and was giving a background of three minutes. He was just looked at and deposed as possible. That has never happened to a single member of the PF or the position. Is that mistreatment that the members are now saying enough? We want earlier, we say we will start the process of exposing this parliament for 180 years. We are representatives. We are not subjects of madam's speaker and I want to make it very clear. We are not subject of any presiding officer. Those presiding officers are mere ampires. Just to regulate debate for purposes of order. I want each one of you sitting here to go back and play the clips of parliamentary business. Find out how many times presiding officers speak. They speak more than members of parliament. The time allocated for this parliament is actually a kwanzumbia presiding officer. That does not happen in any parliament anywhere. I've been to Ghana. We went from madam's speaker to Ghana and we were watching. You would think the house has no speaker. We watched the speakers four times. Short addresses to parliament. We were in Kenya, we were in Morocco, we were in Uganda. It's only this parliament. This is a parliament for presiding officers and not for members of parliament. Countrymen and women. This is a very serious indictment on our parliament and the management of the presiding officers. This parliament is a house for members of parliament. That was made very clear. It can't be the other way around. The fact that we've been very civil and respectful should not in any way give anybody an impression that we're weak because we are elected members of parliament. And that parliament has no power to expel me. No power, can you imagine? So we've just been civil. Because they have no power to expel me. They're most against these 30 days. Now can you imagine if we're not civilized? We can cause chaos every day and be suspended for 30 days every other time. What does it matter? Nothing. But we decided to be respectful and offer credible checks and policies. So our silence and respect should not be taken for granted. You've all been there. Most of you have covered parliament for a very long time. Go to Standing Order 65, for instance. The rules say a member debating on the floor of the house must ensure that the information they bring on the floor of the house is both factual and verified. A presiding officer can change the rules anytime and say a minister is right all the time. The minister has spoken that before. So the people that break the Standing Order are presiding officers to start. Speaking as a lawyer, the moment the presiding officer does that, it means those standing orders are now at large. I can't obey them. They aren't applicable. Because what the presiding officer has done, if they are faced through these standing orders, they don't apply anymore. So we can just apply our own arbitrary rules. And that's a difficulty. There's never been a time in this parliament when it has been so difficult to manage that parliament. But I want to tell you that I think the management of parliament is a challenge. Every day members are being corrected every other time when capacity will ever be built in that parliament because we're being affected. I've been a member, I'm not new. I understand the rules as they start. Out of respect, even when the house has fallen into contact, we've kept quiet. But we can't continue. What is happening now is that the representation of our people is being affected. We have three mandates as parliament. One is to legislate those. Two is to offer oversight, providing checks and balances and approving the budgets. Now, in the first place, when bills are presented, the order of parliament is that they are referred to committees. Committees interrogate these bills and invite stakeholders such that the report of the committee is what helps parliament to either proceed with the bill or make the necessary amendments. In some cases, bills that were drawn by our nation. The bill, the National Prosecution Authority view, came with the negative recommendations of the committee. From practice previously, what we saw and have been given in the do is to draw that view and consult fail because the stakeholders submitting to that committee are stakeholders who are carefully selected. These are stakeholders who are likely to be affected by the enactment. In this particular case, for the record, the lower association of Zambia, the law development commission, the DPP, the public protector, they all oppose those amendments and many understand those. The question that we had on the fourth house is for who benefit then are we enacting this law? Why that is very important for you to know is that if that house is going to exist for academic purposes, then we must hope you are ashamed because then it doesn't matter what bill the executive bring, it should go through anyway meaning that all those processes that will set out, that could purify, that could scrutinize a mayor academic exercise as the president also told me about fire. So this is the kind of parliament that we have. Now this always happens when you have an executive that stretches its finger in the other organ. Last week I was telling that when we collapse government system, parliament now is gone. It's gone. I hope you can see that. We can't even enact laws properly. It becomes an academic exercise. Why? Because someone is scared of the mighty president Hakka hindi ichilema baini. He called the train mind everybody. Even those that should enjoy it are so scared and terrified. They make mistakes every day. Even when we tell them we are independent, you are independent amount of government. They are so scared of this mighty Hakka hindi ichilema. It's a shame. That's a shame. Can't tell ourselves into a country of cowards I refuse to be part of a class of cowards. He's just part of a mortal human being who was also amenable before the law. He must also follow what the law provides. Why then should this then change as in everybody? People can't preside. They want to think what is he going to think. Conference registered as an accomplished lawyer. 30 years experience. We can't speak on a bill because they're dead scared that he's going to tear it apart. He's ignored. I can't talk about anything to do with the finance who's going to tear it apart because of one individual. You idolize one individual turning him into a devil god that is scared as everybody. That is not right. President Hakka hindi ichilema. You should say no to that because God firms upon such machinations. I want to when you are president I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. All arms of government are so scared. There are no judgements now. They live much better. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know what is going on. I want to know if somebody is going to do it I want to know what is going on. I think the lot has been said we thought we could put a point across that our parliament na wiki Wiki III to ...and the legislature through those channels. So if such a meeting was desired, we can have it here. Why? Because one of our view will be protected by standing orders and we enjoy his amenities and privileges. Can you imagine a meeting at Mungushi and Comrade Sanga asked very difficult questions. He may ask a difficult question to the president. The following day he will be abducted. So our MPs are insecure. They are saying we cannot have any meeting outside this parliament because what will follow will be a series of abductions. People are accusing members of disrespecting the president of Mungushi. We as members of the patriotic fight, we have always respected the public and president because that's the office that must be respected. When there is a roam in that office we point it out but at no time everybody is respected at office and yet the overzealers officers out there may misunderstand a difficult question and mistake it for information. So we have declined that invitation but we remain open to discuss the CDF with the structures within parliament. We understand the functioning of CDF and I think we have tried to advise many a time nothing much has come out. Very quickly I think our minister of mind in the shadow cabinet on El Pavuma talked about Medanta and we all know the story of Medanta. I think before we went to elections there was a report that bought vehicles for the UPMD, Maindras and Toyota Hiluxes and also released some money at some point they had released $100,000. It was an appeal by the president of the party then to say why don't you increase it to $300,000 because when I get it to power I'll give you back the mind. I'm not sure you all remember that story. That story was given to us by His Excellency the president then was in office and says I have these few comments that these people have received money they are asking for more money and they promise to give back better. There was a meeting in Cape Town I almost remember this where Medanta made to the president we asked on the floor of the house to give us the details of the meeting we never told. In the background the minister of mines kept on saying the data will never come back they are gone. So the question is what has changed? What has changed? Have you been told what has changed? So remember that we told you corruption is not the mayor giving for receiving of prize it will come by policy, administration so whatever policy they have on on this year let's wait, let's wait it against what we know about the relationship that UPND has so is it payback time? Is the deal between government and Vendata in the best interest of the private citizens or indeed the public? Your guess is as good as mine this will benefit the UPND what is to happen to the people in the Cova Belt and this is the personal definition of corruption so if anybody wanted to know what corruption is the deal of giving back the data is corruption don't call it by any other name that is pure corruption why? because our friends in the UPND received money and vehicles from the data before so with all the problems that they left on the Cova Belt most of mines only before you must say they were chased by the people, government simply implemented so the offenses and atrocities they cause against our people were never addressed but they've given them back the money it's payback time and somebody must tomorrow cause somebody else corruption are you sure? with this Vendata deal which everybody can see is less with corruption so colleagues I think that we all have to open our minds don't leave any details behind everything is connected 2021 money was received vehicles were received late 2021 2022 a meeting happened in Cape Town today Vendata has been given back the money I think you want to say you are looking for corruption elsewhere why are you looking for corruption elsewhere? get it in this one so I think we it's been along there Golden we are talking about this we need a dance I am worried too we are going to the third year we gave our 3 billion kwacha peye to these mining houses I don't want you to forget that we made minoroy that's deductible and we are losing 3 billion kwacha peye in exchange for a ramp in production to 3 million dance now the production is going down haven't you been cheated? those mining houses now they are supposed to be recording an increase in the output in the mining sector because we acted to a detriment by giving them no compensation but now we are being told the production is going down and they are still looking out for miscorab colleagues they are still looking out for miscorab if these details that we are able to bring out off the cuff if we are given time it's deductible I think I'll end here because I sometimes get affected in such high level of corruption so colleagues thank you very much for your attention