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    "id": 270367,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It could be related to the same matter but slightly on a different angle. You will find that the Standing Orders say that a Minister will be disorderly for not answering Questions just as it is disorderly for Members of the Back Bench not to ask Questions. We are confronted with one situation as the Back Bench that when a Member of the Back Bench asks a Question to a Minister and he is unable to come and prosecute the Question at the right time, that Question is dropped and that becomes a very heavy punishment for the Member who losses the Question and cannot re-introduce it in that session. But when Ministers are unable to answer Questions, the worst that this House does as sanctions, is asking a Minister not to transact any business which, in essence from the angle we are looking at, is even a reprieve given to the Ministers because sometimes they find it very uncomfortable to answer Questions in this House."
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