Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri was notably absent from Parliament on Monday during a heated sitting where the PN requested an urgent parliamentary debate on the theft of 200kg of seized drugs from AFM premises, as opposition MPs demanded answers and accountability over the scandal.

On Sunday, the country was shocked over reports that 200kg of drugs which were under AFM custody were stolen. Camilleri offered his resignation; however, Prime Minister Robert Abela refuted it.

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech presented the PN’s motion in Parliament on Monday, where he said that Camilleri did not even show up at the parliamentary sitting to answer questions, after he publicly admitted that he was politically responsible, and offered his resignation.

Grech said that Camilleri should have been the one making the ministerial statement today instead of Abela. The same statement was not made in today’s sitting due to a heated sitting full of suspensions and heckling from both sides.