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    "content": "Order hon. Members. Take your seats. I have this Communication from the Chair to make, and it is on the alleged request by hon. Ababu to be excused from all parliamentary activities. Hon. Members, I wish to bring to your attention that on Tuesday, 31st March, 2015 at around 3.00 p.m. a lady officer who claimed to be a Personal Assistant to Budalang‘i Member of Parliament, hon. Ababu, brought a letter to my office, whose subject matter was ―request to be excused from all parliamentary activities;‖ it was dated 31st March, 2015 and addressed to the Speaker. The letter was officially received and stamped by an officer in my office. However, within ten minutes of receipt of the letter, the said Personal Assistant went back to my office and asked to withdraw the letter, which was subsequently given to her. Later in the afternoon of that same day, a letter was circulated on social media in which, among other things, hon. Ababu sought leave from attending all House sessions, activities of the House Committee on Administration and National Security, any activity of the suspended Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and any other business of the House and its committees. In this regard, my office has been inundated with inquiries from various people seeking to know the import of the letter and the action I will take on the request by hon. Ababu. Hon. Members, for avoidance of doubt, I wish to clarify that although the letter was brought to my office, it was subsequently withdrawn, and to date I have no letter from hon. Ababu requesting to be excused from any of the activities of this House. In view of this, I ask hon. Ababu to go on record and confirm the circumstances surrounding the withdrawal of the letter as my office will be unable to make any pronouncement and/or issue any direction on a letter that is non-existent, having been withdrawn by the said Personal Assistant. If hon. Ababu is in the House, I would want to offer him the opportunity now to place on record what it is he intended the Speaker to do or the House to know about this letter. If he is not in, he will be given the earliest opportunity whenever he will come to the Chamber either today or on any other day the House sits to explain himself. Thank you, hon. Members."
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