Leaders should follow proper conducts

IN any working environment, when a new employee sets foot, he or she is inducted on external agencies, cultures and imperatively the protocols.
In the same manner, when MPs go to Parliament, they are inducted to follow Parliament standing orders, the Constitution and other relevant laws.
However, the move by both parties (Opposition and Government) in the floor of Parliament recently was absurd.
Such actions are of semi-educated and power hungry leaders.
The MPs should act in accordance with the law. Although deputy Speaker, Koni Iguan alluded that he ruled according to advice of the clerk to Parliament, he should be knowledgeable of his conducts in absences of the Speaker.
He should be knowledgeable of the standing orders.
Similarly, the senior Opposition MPs and others who have served more terms in Parliament should have complied with processes.
A jurist could provide the best legal advice on this but from a layman’s view, the Opposition and the Government are at breach of Parliamentary processes.
Whatever decision the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the Parliament sitting last Tuesday, the silent majority want all things done in compliance with the set laws.
We do not want to see 2011 political crisis repeat or either another Frank Banimarama of Fiji forcefully placed in the executive position.

Jeffsatu Lypin Lokait,
Pom