Scouting Ireland members expelled over misconduct
Updated / Tuesday, 9 Feb 2021
18:16
Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent
The Board of Scouting Ireland has written to its members informing them of the expulsion of a number of individuals from the association.
They include Chief Scout Christy McCann, Chief Commissioner David Shalloo and former board member Ollie Kehoe.
In those cases, the board says it found evidence of misconduct under Scouting Ireland s disciplinary process and that they have been expelled from membership of the association.
The email says the board also found evidence of misconduct in relation to a fourth member, Therese Bermingham.
The correspondence states that Ms Bermingham is limited to working within her local group as a Programme Scouter and may not hold any position in the organisation outside of that group for the period of two years.
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United Party for National Development (UPND) Elections Chairperson, Garry Nkombo has said that the party has engaged independent individuals to oversee the elections at the UPND General Assembly.
CISCA president Judith Mulenga will chair the process and will be assisted by Judith Mulenga and Macdonald Chipenzi of GEARS and that these are not UPND but had been asked to run the UPND elections.
Mr Nkombo said that the National Management Committee (NMC) extraordinary meeting held at the UPND secretariat yesterday resolved that all party positions (including that of the party president) were open for contestation.
“The UPND has engaged independent individuals from civil society to help us run this affair which will help us achieve the transparency that we are looking for. We have appointed Judith Mulenga from CiSCA to chair the Election Commission. She will be assisted by Pamela Chisanga, a governance activist, and MacDonald Chipenzi from GEARS. We wish to appeal to our members not