Sittings

With one week of parliamentary sittings left, the government finds itself outgunned by a man with simple and angry messages(ABC): We are now just a week from the end of parliamentary sittings for the year.

QTV was asking for D150, 000 for a month’s filming irrespective of number of sittings or where the sittings are held.

Grima said he attended three court sittings and was not even called to testify, despite not remembering anything of what happened.

It was gathered that the house, on the directive of the state governor, Sir a, relocated its sittings to a new place provided by the governor.

Lawyers for St Peter MP Asot Michael has threatened legal action against Speaker of the House, Sir Gerald Watt in what they call an unlawful move to suspend the parliamentarian for three consecutive sittings.

Meanwhile, opposition MP Hugh Graham missed 31 sittings and attended 17. There was no recorded apology for his absences.

Meanwhile the ruling Zanu PF party last month claimed it had won 53 local authority seats unchallenged at the close of the nomination court sittings due to the CCC’s shambolic selection exercise.

Or when MPs take their salaries and don’t attend sittings!

Phillips, the St Andrew East Central representative who is battling colon cancer, and octogenarian Mike Henry of Clarendon Central both attended only three of 53 sittings in 2022, according to parliamentary attendance records.

The first part of the Budget Session yielded a total of 10 sittings of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.

The government wants the Housing Australia Future Fund legislation, designed to fund the build of 30,000 affordable homes over five years, passed before the end of the June sittings.

The house rarely holds 100% physical sittings since the building which houses its chamber was gutted by fire in January last year.

The inquiry will be briefed on correspondence received from her legal team ahead of next week’s planned sittings, where she is expected to call further witnesses.

The Senate Session reportedly began at about 11 am on Saturday, May 27, 2023, which is a deviation from the usual practice, which has its sittings day on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

This includes Formal Legislative Council sittings, Minister’s Question Time and Select Committee Meetings.

This was even as the two factions of the state House of Assembly continued to hold separate sittings following last week’s demolition of the legislative quarters.

This week the State had its completed Book of Evidence in court for formal hand-over to the defence, and once completed Judge Zaidan sent Clarke across to hall to face trial at the present sittings of Naas Circuit Court which began on 18 April.

Director, University Relations, Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, said the approval of the expulsion followed the recommendations of the Students’ Disciplinary Committee (SDC), which held sittings between October 2021 and March 2024.

Golu noted that the government was shocked considering that sittings of the House have been relocated to the Old Government House due to the ongoing renovation of the premises.

He also attended inquiry sittings and actively participated in questioning.