Leader of the House who is also Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda, has said Parliament will not extend the current meeting despite government having a number of business it wishes to conclude before the House rises Friday.<\/p>\n
His comment follows communication that Speaker of the National Assembly, Richard Msowoya, made in the House that government will move a motion today to extend the meeting.<\/p>\n
Chaponda said in an interview that the one week extension that some Members of Parliament demanded would not have accommodated all the bills.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if the meeting would have been extended, government would not have succeeded in having all the bills attended to before the House rises,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
He said government is now planning to open next meeting next year as early as possible in order to squeeze time for the remaining bills.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo accommodate t h e government bills, we have decided that the next meeting of Parliament will commence earlier than scheduled. We want to make it in such a way, subject to President\u2019s agreement, that the next meeting should be a little bit earlier in order that we can introduce more of the bills,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
Some of the remaining bills include, National Planning Commission, Public Audit and Financial Crimes.<\/p>\n
Government decision is against a demand that chairpersons of various committees made, Monday this week, to have the meeting extended in order to discuss the Financial Crimes Bill of 2016 which aims at creating a robust legislative to deal with financial crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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