I’LL TRY SUPPRESS ANY ILL FEELINGS – SPEAKER

MBABANE – Speaker Themba Msibi says he will try and suppress any ill feelings against the MPs behind his suspension and investigation.
Msibi was suspended on Wednesday two weeks ago after Nkwene MP Skhumbuzo Dlamini moved a motion to that effect.

He was suspected to have been behind a conspiracy to oust the prime minister and also to have abused his Parliamentary powers among other things.
Lifted
The suspension has, however, been lifted through a court order that Msibi obtained through an urgent application where he sought an order to set aside the resolution of the House of Assembly to suspend him and also the Select Committee set up to investigate him to be set aside and Nkwene and Zombodze Emuva Members of Parliament, Sikhumbuzo Dlamini and Titus Thwala to be removed from the committee.

“It is true that if one steps on your foot, you are bound to feel the pain and complain, or even throw a punch out of the pain. This is part of life. But we are at work here and we should keep things going smoothly in order to deliver. We have to do all that is possible to suppress the ill-feelings we may have against each other,” said the Speaker.
He said the people who have mandated them were expecting them to deliver and not to fight. The Speaker also withdrew the case without stating reasons.
Msibi said politics did not allow one to keep on dragging issues.

“Life just goes on. Some things need to be left just like that so that the truth unfolds with time.”
He said as human beings, they were made up with the same material and had similar feelings about certain situations, adding that he felt there was no need to pursue the court case because his wish had been granted.
“The main condition of my suspension was that I remain away while the committee investigating the matter worked on it. So my understanding is that my presence in the office will not disturb anything because the court has stopped the committee from investigating the matter.
That then led to my withdrawal of the case because at the end of the day, my wish to have the committee stop its investigation had already been granted.”
The issues that Msibi was to be investigated for are; the alleged unprofessional manner in which he has been running Parliament that has left administrative staff aggrieved; his alleged involvement in a scheme to overthrow Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini; and the dismissal and inoperativeness of the Parliament Joint House Committee and the alleged misrepresentation during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) elections in Cameroon, in that he said he had been sent by the local CPA executive.

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