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Rohee to sit on Privileges Committee
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee will form part of the government team in the Committee of Privileges which will determine if the House can sanction him, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon said yesterday.
Last week, Speaker of the House, Raphael Trotman, ruled that Minister Rohee would not be allowed to introduce legislation in the House until the Committee decides if the House has the power to sanction him.
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee
But Trotman made it clear that Rohee was not being silenced, or gagged, as is being claimed by the government. Trotman said that if Rohee wants to speak on any matter before the House he would be allowed to, and that the restriction is merely confined to the introduction of legislation until the Committee of Privileges comes to a decision.
But the government is holding on to its claim, with Dr. Luncheon yesterday calling the decision “gross.”
As far as the government was concerned, the Speaker’s ruling was that “the House could and would and did silence a member,” namely Rohee.
With the government refusing to budge on the vote of no confidence against Minister Rohee, the opposition had moved to the House seeking to have the Minister barred from speaking.
Opposition Leader, David Granger, took a motion to the National Assembly stating that the National Assembly has the power to sanction a member and those powers should be invoked against Minister Rohee against whom the opposition-led National Assembly has voted “no confidence.”
After a lengthy debate, the Speaker ruled that Standing Order 91 deals with matters which appear to affect the power or privileges of the Assembly and as such a Committee of Privileges would be best to determine if the Assembly has the power to restrict the privilege of any member.
The committee would be convened with the Speaker as Chairman along with five members from the opposition and four members from the government side of the House.
The government has moved to the court to quash Trotman’s decision.
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