{{The East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) continued to be plagued by crisis Tuesday when Tanzanian legislators walked out, a day after their Rwandan counterparts staged a temporary boycott.}}
The regional legislature was for the second day running adjourned and will resume at 2.30pm today when it starts debating a motion on the rotation of sittings which was finally tabled during yesterday’s brief session.
“We have walked out to protest the way the Speaker was humiliated yesterday (Tuesday),’’ Mr Abdallah Mwinyi after leading four other Tanzanian members out of the chamber about 20 minutes after the session started.
He said the Tanzania Chapter of the regional assembly had been dismayed at the way Speaker Margaret Zziwa was “humiliated” after Rwandan members walked out in protest at Ms Zziwa decision not to allow a motion on rotation of Eaala sitting among East African Community (EAC) member countries.
Another Tanzanian legislator, Ms Shyrose Bhanji, said: We condemn what happened yesterday. We didn’t do justice to the Speaker.”
She warned if such boycotts were allowed to continue the integrity of the assembly would be grossly undermined.
NMG
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