Mliswa faces contempt of Parliament charges

HURUNGWE West legislator Temba Mliswa (Zanu PF) faces contempt of Parliament charges for claiming that businessman Billy Rautenbach bribed members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment chaired by Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu PF Gokwe-Nembudziya).

Wadyajena yesterday asked the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda to make a ruling on whether Mliswa’s remarks constituted contempt of Parliament.

According to arguments brought before the House by Wadyajena, Mliswa was quoted in The Herald of April 3 2014 saying: “Billy Rautenbach had also got into Parliament and already had corrupted some MPs from the Indigenisation committee.”

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