Africa-Press – Zambia. GEARS has urged the UPND administration to table all laws and amendments they promised Zambians when they were in opposition. Governance Elections Advocacy Research Services (GEARS) Initiative executive director McDonald Chipenzi says as parliament resumes sitting, the new administration should actualise all the legal reforms they promised the nation.
The first session of the Thirteenth National Assembly which adjourned sine die on Thursday December 23, 2021 will resume on Tuesday, February 15, 2022.
“We have huge expectations from the new dawn administration as parliament resumes… One of the things we expect is for parliament to table the public order Act in its next sitting,” he said in an interview.
“As stakeholders, we feel it was tabled and just withdrawn. As stakeholders, we were requested to make submissions on the public order bill.”
Chipenzi said parliament should also consider making an amendment to the cyber security and cyber crimes Act. He also cited the tabling of the NGO bill and ensuring its enactment among other expectations.
“We expect that all things that the new dawn administration especially in terms of legal reforms promised when they were in opposition be considered during this legislative process.
This also includes the actualising of the motion of lifestyle audit where parliament urged the government to initiate a legislation on the lifestyle audit of public officers,” said Chipenzi.
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