Correspondent|NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa continues to hog the limelight for the wrong reasons after he was kicked out from the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement where he had barged into a meeting for an unspecified agenda, claiming he was sent by unnamed powers-that-be to represent their interests in the committee.
Committee chair Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Honourable Justice Mayor Wadyajena, confirmed that the committee kicked him out because he is not a member of the committee.
Writing on his Twitter page, Wadyajena said “We just expelled Temba Mliswa from Agric Committee proceedings. He isn’t a Member and claims he represents ‘other’ interests. Mliswa is intent on spreading anarchy after his recent failure to procedurally chair the Mines Comm. What a disgrace! Kudos, Comm members, for standing firm!”
Mliswa wanted to be a member of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement, but the manoeuvres were thwarted by Wadyajena.
Mliswa, who also chairs the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development, is currently in the eye of a storm after a failed attempt on Monday to discuss the Hwange Colliery Company reconstruction despite the matter being before the courts, making it sub judice.
Mliswa this Tuesday allegedly barged into the Lands Committee unannounced, claiming he was sent by unnamed powers-that-be to represent their interests in the committee.
Efforts to get Mliswa’s reasons for gate-crashing the meeting proved fruitless as he was not picking up his phone.
Following the debacle in his committee, Mliswa, hinted that he might reconsider his position as chairman of the Mines Committee.
As Chairperson of the Mines Committee, Mliswa has attracted unwarranted attention to himself in the past with probably his altercation with the then Minister of Home Affairs Obert Mpofu being the highlight.
Mpofu refused to give evidence before Mliswa citing his demeanour when he once visited him at his home nicodemously as the excuse.
He also clashed with Dr Daniel Shumba who he accused of exhibiting extortionist tendencies while he was the then chairman of the Mines and Energy Committee and had said Mliswa was a power hungry legislator who wanted to upstage him from his position.
He later chaired the committee after Dr Shumba was fired from Zanu PF and subsequently recalled from parliament.