PARLIAMENT was on Thursday morning adjourned for half an hour following an unprecedented technical hitch in the debating chamber.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Job
Ndugai decided to suspend the morning session just few minutes after the
end of the spontaneous questions session to the Prime Minister,
following an abrupt failure of microphones in the debating chamber.
The failure of the microphones started
immediately after Mr Ndugai invited Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa to
the podium of the debating chamber so that he could field impromptu
questions from law makers.
The first legislator in the list of the
House speaker was Mlalo MP, Abdallah Shangazi (CCM). Hardly had he stood
up to ask his questions, than his microphone failed.
An attempt by the MP to test several
microphones on the side of the legislators from the ruling party proved
futile, as Mr Ndugai asked him to match on the other side of the
opposition MPs where microphones were working.
All CCM MPs who wanted to ask questions
were not able to do so, instead Speaker of the National Assembly
directed them to move on the podium of the debating chamber that has two
microphones.
Therefore, at the podium, Mr Majaliwa
used one microphone to respond to questions, while some MPs whose
microphones were not working asked their questions from another side
through the second microphone.
Members of the press who sit at a
special gallery in parliament could not be able to capture the questions
and answers properly as the voice from the debating chamber kept on
disappearing.
This prompted the Speaker of the House
to adjourn the session temporarily to allow the parliament’s technical
team to sort out the technical glitch. Automatically, the Question and
Answer session which usually follows after the questions to the Prime
Minister went missing.
Questions that were set to be asked by
MPs will come up again today. The technical hitches in the debating
chamber came barely two weeks after total overhauling of equipment in
the debating chamber amounting to 1.9bn/-, according to parliament
records
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