MPs should boycott useless Parliamentary Committees
Friday, August 28, 2015
Standing Committees which are created for the life of a Parliament, Sessional Select Committees which stand dissolved at the end of each and every Parliamentary session, Special Select Committees which are constituted when the need arises to deal with a matter deemed to be requiring special attention by the National Assembly and Portfolio Committees which are created for the life of a Parliament with a special sectoral mandate.
There are currently eleven Standing Committees; Committee of Selection, Business Advisory Committee, Committee of the National Assembly Staff, Committee on Members' Rights, Interest and Privileges, Standing Orders and Reforms Committee, Parliamentary Caucus on Women, Public Accounts Committee, Finance and Estimates Committee, Committee of Chairpersons of Parliamentary Committees, Committee on Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises and Committee on Subsidiary Legislation.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...