THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has just stormed out of Parliament after learning that Prime Minister Bruce Golding will not address the sitting today and is to file a no confidence motion against him over contradictory statements he made regarding the Manatt Phelps and Phillips affair.

The PNP members of parliament were only present for three minutes before walking out of Gordon House in a huff.

The Prime Minister misled the Parliament and the people of Jamaica, and it is incumbent on him to address the matter in the House and to come clean," said Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller at a press briefing arranged after the walkout.

Simpson Miller said that based on utterances from Deputy Prime Minister Ken Baugh, that the prime minister would be addressing parliament on the matter.

It is incumbent on Mr. Golding to face the people whom he misled and abused and to apologise in the House. The matter cannot be sufficiently handled by way of a national broadcast and a failure to deal with the matter in the Parliament is contemptuous, said Peter Phillips, who first raised the Manatt issue.

The PNP had demanded that Golding resign together with Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne in the aftermath of his admission that he personally sanctioned his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to hire United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby the US government against the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

The prime minister last night apologised to the nation for his role in the matter and also announced that Government would give the authority to proceed with the extradition of Coke, a prominent JLP supporter and reputed don of Tivoli Gardens a community which lies at the heart of his constituency of West Kingston.