Speaker of the National Assembly Hon Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, MP, SC, has said that there is need to have a strong parliamentary oversight accountability committee system which should play a critical role in the prudent utilisation of public resources. He said that such a system would provide checks and balances required to ensure a properly functioning and transparent public financial management.

Members of the Pan African Parliament have been urged to champion the ratification of the Malabo Protocol to the Constitutive Act of the African Union relating to the Pan African Parliament. Speaking during the official opening of the First Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Pan African Parliament in Kigali, Rwanda, President of the Pan African Parliament, Honourable Roger Nkodo Dang called on the Members to work towards the ratification of the Malabo Protocol in their respective countries and in the member countries of the African Union.

First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia, Hon. Catherine Namugala MP, has said the Joint Parliamentary Peer Group for Members of Parliament primarily focuses on enhancing the capacity of the Zambian and Austrian Parliament in providing oversight on the implementation of sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.

Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia, Rt. Hon Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, SC, FCArb, MP has said partnerships at Constituency Office level have been uncoordinated and ad hoc resulting in the development of guidelines for governing the relationship and interface between the Constituency Offices and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).