COPE calls for ministerial handbook to be revised by assembly

Rentse Khiba

29 November 2015

The Congress Of the People has released a statement calling for the revised ministerial handbook to follow the presidential handbook into the public domain.

Bloem said that COPE believes that the National Assembly has the primary and final responsibility has the primary including that which is incurred through the ministerial handbook.

“Now that everyone has sight of the presidential handbook, it is indeed time. To compel the executive to release the revised Ministerial Handbook to the public also. We need transparency.” Bloem added.

COPE spokesperson Dennis Bloem said that COPE wants the mistrial handbook to come to the national assembly for revision.