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    "content": "Order Members! Order! Hon. Members, many of you have asked me to use Standing Order No.1 but if you read through, it applies to situations where there is no specific provision in the Standing Orders. Once you commence the process of voting in the House, as happened this evening, that process is provided for between Standing Order No.69 through to Standing Order No.76. The Division Bell was rung. The next step was for the doors to be locked and the Bar to be drawn. Hon. Members, this is because you could not proceed otherwise. However, I must thank you, Hon. Members, for what you said. It appears that reason has prevailed. I am sure that those who cared to listen to what the House said have heard and if they have not; when we next sit, I will put the Question again. There will be no debate. It is just the Question to be put again as long as there is quorum. Quorum in this matter is only 50 Members. You can see that we have more than 100 who are here today. This should send a very clear signal to whomever it is, and that is the cause of the anxiety that we have witnessed in the Chamber today. Therefore, Hon. Members, I want to thank you because you have allowed the House and yourselves to go to short recess at the risk of, from what I am hearing, a Special Sitting. The Leader of the Majority Party is advised that if that Special Siting does not, in the first instance, address the issues you have raised, the House is in the mood of doing something called RTS – (Return to Sender). I guess that is the mood in the House. So, anybody who cares to listen, and if people are to take this House seriously, that message is now loud and clear. It is not fair. This financial year is just about three-and-a-half months to end. Surely, nobody can explain how the NG-CDF funds for this financial year have not been disbursed to some of the constituencies and in some, those for the last financial year. I think it is a situation that must not be allowed to obtain at all. The message is now very clear."
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