The opposition APNU+AFC has moved to the court to challenge the decision of the National Assembly’s Committee of Privileges to recommend the suspension of eight of its MPs over a tumultuous bid on December 29 last year to stop the passage of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) bill which saw the forcible removal of the parliamentary mace.
The fixed date application with urgent notice was filed in the High Court on Wednesday afternoon by shadow Attorney General Roysdale Forde SC. The MPs were formally suspended by Parliament yesterday morning after the report by the Committee of Privileges was approved. Government MPs rejected the argument by the opposition that the matter was now before the court and therefore sub judice. The government side noted that the matter was not yet before a judge.
