The A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change’s (APNU+AFC) challenge to Oneidge Walrond presence in the National Assembly is scheduled to be heard on December 10, 2020, Village Voice News has been reliably informed.
The case will be heard by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire in the High Court.
Leader of the Opposition, Joseph Harmon, had called for criminal charges to be instituted against Walrond who is the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Member of Parliament (MP) and Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce; and Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, over breach of the Constitution.
Ahead of the first sitting of the National Assembly of the 12th Parliament, Clerk of the Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs had formally asked the identified Members of Parliament (MPs) to disclose whether they held allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state, and though Walrond was a U.S. citizen at the time, she not only failed to inform the Clerk of her status, but proceeded to take the Oath as a MP, thereby breaching Article 155 (1) of the Constitution.
Article 155 (1) states that no person shall be qualified for election as a member of the National Assembly if he or she is, by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state.
