Nelly Butete Kashumba Mutti, State Counsel | |
Office: | 7th Speaker of the National Assembly |
Term Start: | 3 September 2021 |
Predecessor: | Patrick Matibini |
Birth Place: | 30 August 1956 |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Husband: | Ignitious Pesuka, PhD,BPharm |
Alma Mater: | University of Zambia |
Nelly Butete Kashumba Mutti (born 30 August 1956)[1] is a Zambian lawyer and the first woman to serve as the Speaker of the National Assembly[2] [3] [4] after going through unopposed.[5]
On 5 October 2023 Mutti was awarded the Commonwealth Parliamentarian of the year 2023 Award at 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, in Accra, Ghana.