The fifth session of the eleventh National Assembly, which adjourned sine die on Friday 11th December 2015, resumes sitting, Tuesday.
Clerk of the National Assembly Doris Mwinga announced the resumption of parliamentary sittings.
This is the last sitting of the Eleventh Assembly whose life started in 2011 with the coming into office of the Patriotic Front.
President Edgar Lungu is expected to dissolve the eleventh National Assembly in May, in readiness for the General elections slated for August.
However before adjourning sine die on December 10th 2015, Members of Parliament spent the whole night debating amendments to the draft constitutional amendment bill of the National Assembly of Zambia number 17 of 2015.
Several amendments to the bill were passed during the debates while others were rejected.
Those rejected included the establishment of provincial assemblies and increasing parliament by 94 nominated members of parliament.
This process culminated into President Lungu early last month, assenting to the constitutional bills.
Meanwhile, Parliament was last year a hive of activities as lawmakers dealt with several issues affecting the country.
The House witnessed the arrival of three new members, Anthony Kasandwe for Bangweulu under the PF ticket, Teddy Kasonso under UPND for Solwezi West and George Mwamba of the PF for Lubansenshi constituency.
It was also during this sitting that Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini ruled that Geoffrey Mwamba was no longer Kasama MP after he accepted to serve as UPND Vice president, a matter which is now in court.
Resumes sitting?? When is it going to be dissolved? We want their members for the election and then discard them after winning. We also want to start campaigning, just like PF.
You are not even a voter and you are busy yapping that you remove them , how are you going to do it. Don’t depend on other people to do it for you baba. Things in the ground are different from what is happening on the online media.