Dodoma
— Speaker Job Ndugai today stopped the opposition from delivering
budget speech for the Ministry of Finance, citing inclusion of the name
of suspended MP, Halima Mdee (Chadema), as one
of the many gaffes in the
document.
"The whole speech
has inappropriate wording from page number one to the end. These words
cannot be accepted by our tradition and culture even after 100 years,"
he said.
Ms Mdee, the
opposition's spokesperson for the ministry of Finance and Planning, has
been suspended from attending two parliamentary meetings for supporting a
statement made by the Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Prof Mussa
Assad that the law making organ was weak.
"Today we are here,
but the future generation including our grand-children will reads these
books. It is impossible that the suspended person continues executing
parliamentary activities," he said.
Recently, Mr Ndugai
assured members of the opposition that their budget speeches will
tabled unedited but cautioned them to avoid conflicting views.
The speech was
expected to be read by deputy shadow minister in the ministry of Finance
and Planning, Mr David Silinde who acts in Mdee's absence.
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