BILL 10 DEBATE: UPND MPs set free
AFTER being put under pressure by citizens to stop sabotaging the enactment of constitution amendment Bill number 10, the UPND has now washed its hands and told its MPs to make their own decisions on the matter.
The party’s secretary-general, Mr Stephen Katuka said Members of Parliament will make their own decisions when the Bill is brought to the floor of parliament for debate and enactment.
He said the issue of voting and debating in the house was not a matter of the UPND but the MPs themselves were going to decide on how to conduct themselves because when they are in parliament they are independent from the decision of the party.
“As a party we feel the MPs are mature enough to decide on their own, and make their own judgement in the best interest of the people who sent them to parliament,” he said.
Mr Katuka also said all those asking questions on whether not or the UPND will direct its MPs on which route to take on Bill 10, should stop pointing fingers at the party but instead ask the opposition leadership in parliament on what they have agreed to do.
“All the questions pertaining to the route the UPND Members of Parliament will take on Bill 10, should be directed to the leader of the opposition in parliament and he will explain what they have agreed,” Mr Katuka said.
“As UPND what we are saying is that let them do what they think is right for the people they represent in the National Assembly.
Mr Katuka said the opinion of the party is not going to matter once the bill was brought to the floor of the house and it will be up to the MPs to decide.