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Nyemudzai Kakore Herald Correspondent
Parliament yesterday added five more members to the Standing Rules and Orders Committee (SROC) and nominated members who will be in the Speaker of the National Assembly Panel. The SROC has the mandate of supervising the administration of Parliament, formulate standing orders, considering and deciding on all matters concerning Parliament and exercising any other functions that may be conferred or imposed on the Committee by the Constitution or by Standing Orders or any other law.

The SROC will have its inaugural meeting tomorrow.
The announcement was made yesterday by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, during the National Assembly sitting.

He said the appointment of the SROC was done in terms of Section 151 (1) of the Constitution.
The added members of the SROC include leader of Government Business in Senate and Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri, leader of the opposition in the Senate, Engineer Elias Mudzuri, Zanu-PF Senate Chief Whip, Cde Tsitsi Muzenda, MDC-Alliance Senate Chief Whip, Lilian Timveos and Senator Omega Hungwe.

Buhera North Constituency legislator, Cde William Mutomba, was retained in the Speaker’s Panel while Lupane West legislator, Cde Martin Khumalo, and Proportional Representation legislator, Cde Tatenda Mavetera, were added.

Cde Khumalo and Cde Mavetera replaces Cde Melody Dziva and Cde Reuben Marumahoko who failed to make it to the Ninth Parliament.

Other members of the SROC who were announced by Advocate Mudenda on Tuesday included his deputy Cde Tsitsi Gezi, Senate president and deputy chairperson, Cde Mabel Chinomona and her deputy Lieutenant-General Michael Reuben Nyambuya (Retired).

Other members of the SROC include leader of Government Business in the House as well as Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, Defence Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, Tabitha Khumalo.

Zanu-PF Chief Whip, Cde Pupurai Togarepi, MDC-Alliance Chief Whip, Prosper Mutseyami, president of the National Council of Chiefs, Chief Fortune Charumbira, Cde Muzenda and Cde Roy Billah are also be members of the SROC.