{"id":9542,"date":"2018-04-01T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9542"},"modified":"2018-04-01T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T22:23:28","slug":"cabinet-minister-slaps-a-lawmaker-banned-from-national-assembly","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/cabinet-minister-slaps-a-lawmaker-banned-from-national-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet minister slaps a lawmaker, banned from National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia\u2019s parliament suspended a cabinet minister on Tuesday from its proceedings for one month. The minister had allegedly slapped a lawmaker within the parliament grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Verbal abuse is common among members of parliament in Zambia, but physical assault is rare.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the National Assembly, Patrick Matibini, said Lusaka Province Minister, Bowman Lusambo, was suspended for slapping outspoken lawmaker Chishimba Kambwili in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Kambwili has repeatedly accused government officials of corruption since his dismissal as information and broadcasting minister in November 2016, but the state denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Kambwili complained after the incident that Lusambo had slapped him twice after accusing Kambwili of making false accusations against the government.<\/p>\n<p>Matibini said Lusambo was banned from entering parliament grounds and using its facilities during the period of suspension and would not be entitled to any allowances.<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters\/NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia\u2019s parliament suspended a cabinet minister on Tuesday from its proceedings for one month. The minister had allegedly slapped a lawmaker within the parliament grounds. Verbal abuse is common among members of parliament in Zambia, but physical assault is rare. Speaker of the National Assembly, Patrick Matibini, said Lusaka Province Minister, Bowman Lusambo, was suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[317,322],"class_list":["post-9542","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-politics","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cabinet minister slaps a lawmaker, banned from National Assembly<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cabinet minister slaps a lawmaker, banned from National Assembly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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