The Papua New Guinea High Courts has dismissed the application by PNG Opposition Leader Belden Namah regarding the non-tabling of the motion of vote of no confidence in last December’s Parliament session. The five-man Supreme Court bench comprising of Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika, Justice David Cannings, Justice Derek Hartshorn, Justice Ere Kariko and Justice Thomas Anis upheld the submissions by the two interveners, in an unanimously decision to dismiss the matter. The two interveners are Attorney General Dr. Eric Kwa and Parliament Speaker, Job Pomat. Namah, through his lawyers from Young and Williams Lawyers had made submissions that the Speaker’s decision on December 16, 2020 to adjourn Parliament to April 20, 2021 without debating and voting on the motion of no confidence breached some provisions of the Constitution. Namah had argued that the Speaker was given the motion on December 14, 2021 however failed to convene a meeting of the Private Business Committee before the Parliament that day. He had further argued that the Speaker also failed to deliver the motion of no confidence to the Clerk to table and also failed to table the motion as priority business on Private Business day. The bench however upheld the interveners’ submissions that there is no Constitutional Law provision that obliged the Speaker to convene a meeting of the Private Business Committee before the Parliament sitting on December 16, 2020, to have the notice tabled and also to inform Parliament that he had received the notice. FM100/PNGfacts Next : PNG Northern Mobile Group Gets Fuel Support Comments are closed.
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