Namibia: Katjavivi Dismisses 'Baseless' News Report

6 December 2017

Windhoek — Speaker of the National Assembly Professor Peter Katjavivi says a new article that appeared in a daily newspaper accusing him of bias is baseless. He says the article in question seeks to purposefully tarnish the image of the National Assembly in general and his person as the presiding officer.

"The article emanates from The Urban And Regional Planning Bill introduced in Parliament recently. In the article, the opposition is said to be crying foul over what they allege to be blockage by the Speaker from objecting to the continuation of the aforementioned bill. This was after they had walked out of Parliament several times in an attempt to frustrate the continuation of the bill," he stated.

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