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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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    "content": " Hon. Senators, we had lined up three Cabinet Secretaries for purposes of responding to questions from Senators. During the Senate Business Committee (SBC) meeting yesterday, we received a letter from the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Labour and Social Protection indicating that he will be accompanying His Excellency the President to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Therefore, he will not be able to be present today for purposes of responding to Question No. 20. We had hoped that the Cabinet Secretaries for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs and Health, will be present today for purposes of responding to Question Nos. 18 and 19. However, I am informed by the secretariat that last night, we received two letters from the two Cabinet Secretaries indicating that they will be unable to attend this Session today. We have given instructions to the secretariat to respond to those letters but as we do that, I am afraid that we may not proceed with this Session because none of them is present today to respond to these Questions. Therefore, we will have to move to the next Order as we write to the Cabinet Secretaries and particularly engage the Prime Cabinet Secretary because as an institution, we are not going to tolerate this behaviour. If a Cabinet Secretary is unable to attend such a session, courtesy demands that they write to the Senate in good time so that the Senate can re-arrange its Business. Writing to the Senate a few hours to its Sitting shows discourtesy and we are not going to tolerate. Hon. Senators, we may not be able to prosecute Order No. 7 and we will move to Order No. 8 in the Order Paper."
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