Supra Mahumapelo, the former premier of North West, has filed a formal complaint against China Dodovu, the Chairperson of Parliament and the hoc committee on the section 100 intervention in North West.
After being ordered to leave a virtual parliamentary meeting on Monday, Mahumapelo has launched an eleventh hour counter-offensive. The discussion focused on the province’s governance issues, which had previously been a source of contention.
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For an update on the section 100 intervention in the North West, the ad hoc committee met with the inter-ministerial task team and National Treasury.
A furious Mahumapelo said he hoped Dodovu’s decision was influenced by his formal complaint to Dodovu chairing the committee, which he registered with the National Council of Provinces.
Dodovu asked Mahumapelo to leave at the virtual meeting’s beginning, claiming he had not been invited. They are both from the North West, therefore they have had a long history of feuding.
According to the former premier, Parliament’s rules clearly state that a member of the assembly who is not a member of committee or sub-committee may attend a meeting of that committee or sub-committee.
“For me, it is clear that honourable Dodovu undermined the rules of parliament deliberately because I attempted to bring this to his attention and he ignored the advice.
He also took an arbitrary decision and thereby undermined the committee he was chairing by not at least, at a minimum, putting the matter of my presence in the meeting to the committee for a decision,” he said.
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Mahumapelo said Dodovu’s conduct showed an element of abuse of power. He added that this hindered his rights as an MP to participate in the meeting.
“My humble submission is that necessary steps and/or remedial action be invoked in terms of the rules of Parliament against honourable Dodovu. His action is tantamount to impeding my constitutional rights as a public representative and a member of Parliament,” the letter read.
By Aphiwe Poko (Intern)
