Skelemani calls for Parly experts committees

“We are extremely short staffed. We lack skilled personnel to help us. For example, you will find that experts who are hired to work with oversight committees are overworked. They would have all the committees demanding some form of assistance. This overwhelms them and we continue to request for more staff,” he said.

Skelemani also said they have tried several times to request for more staff but were told that they are not the only ones with short staffing adding that it was critical that as law makers, they are adequately resourced. Meanwhile, appearing before Public Accounts Committee recently, Dithapo called on oversight institutions to help the House  get the area experts it  needs for each portfolio committee to assist them to facilitate parliamentary oversight. “We also need a dedicated development planner as in other ministries, yet we are an arm of government [that does without]. We have long requested as we currently use an officer based elsewhere who comes once in a while to assist,” she said.