PAST PARLIAMENT WAS THE MOST SELFISH ON RECORD – ACTIVIST

Good Governance Activist, Simon Kabanda has described Zambia’s immediate past legislative house as most selfish.

President Rupiah Banda recently dissolved the parliament to pave way for this year’s general elections on 20^th September 2011.

Mr Banda dissolved the parliament, side-by-side his cabinet of Ministers, who were picked from the respective legislative house.

But Mr Kabanda, who is also Executive secretary for the local Non-Governmental Organisation, Citizens forum, says the past parliamentarians focused so much on themselves.

He has explained that this was at the expense of the people they were supposed to represent.

The respective parliament also failed the hugely funded constitution making process by failing to agree on its enactment.

Government allocated public resources in excess of 100 billion Kwacha towards the constitution making process, which was however sabotaged by parliament.