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- By Nation Reporter

By Nation Reporter

The incident happened after Mr Shakafuswa’s failed attempt to raise a point of order while Nalikwanda MMD Member of Parliament Professor Geoffrey THE civil service Lungwangwa was on the floor profession­alism has been debating the national budget. compromise­d by the

Mr Lungu who was sitting as appointmen­t of poorly chairman of the committee of trained, ill-prepared and supply on estimates refused to undiscipli­ned political party grant the point of order. cadres as civil servants,

It was at this point that Mr veteran politician Vernon Shakafuswa in his running Mwaanga has observed. commentary accused Mr Lungu obfarred always being biased towards thDeR ruling party.

“I can order you to get out. In fact, get out for the rest of the day,” Mr Lungu.

But Mr Shakafuswa was also not done with the chair and retorted that he did not mind being sent out of the House for a month as he picked up his documents and left. FOOTBALL was yerstaday locked up when Zambia Revenue Authority swang into action demanding to be paid tax obligation which have accumulate­d to K1

He said the appointmen­t of politicall­y inclined permanent secretarie­s, directors and other senior civil servants into the public services had over the years lowered the moral and motivation among career public service officers.

Dr Mwaanga said in a statement yesterday that the politicizi­ng of the civil service had resulted in inefficien­cy in the public service and reduction in the delivery of public services in the country.

The Football Associatio­n of Zambia secretaria­t was out of bounds to members of the public and football family as ZRA officials had locked up the premises.

 ??  ?? By Nation Reporter DEPUTY Speaker of the National Assembly Mukondo Lungu yesterday chased Katuba Member of Parliament Jonas Shakafuswa out of Parliament after he accused him of being biased towards the ruling party whenever granting points of orders. By Nation Reporter To Page 2 million over the past 5 years.
By Nation Reporter DEPUTY Speaker of the National Assembly Mukondo Lungu yesterday chased Katuba Member of Parliament Jonas Shakafuswa out of Parliament after he accused him of being biased towards the ruling party whenever granting points of orders. By Nation Reporter To Page 2 million over the past 5 years.

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