Norton legislator (independent), Temba Mliswa and Gokwe Kabuyuni MP, Leanard Chikomba (Zanu-PF), Magwegwe MP, Mr Anele Ndebele and Binga North representative, Mr Prince Sibanda ( both MDC-Alliance) were yesterday barred from sitting on the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines for bringing the House into disrepute.
The four are being accused of having demanded a US$400 000 bribe from a local businessman, Mr James Ross Goddard of JRG Contracting (Pvt) Ltd, as “facilitation fee” to enable the latter’s company to secure a mining contract at Hwange Colliery.
The Fortune Charumbira-chaired Parliament’s Privileges Committee said that the four had to be sanctioned although there was inadequate evidence implicating them since they brought the August House into disrepute after they allegedly convened meetings at night, away from Parliament building under the guise of holding official business.
The committee directed them to apologise to the National Assembly for their conduct and they are now set to lose a day’s sitting allowance.
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