Youth and Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba was forced to apologise to MPs after a heated afternoon session. https://bit.ly/47Mj9Nc
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00:00 This goes to the majority leader and the cabinet ministers, that they come to answer questions
00:07 guided by you as the majority leader who is the nexus between this house and the executive.
00:17 And writing to Mr Speaker after he has given direction is inadvisable.
00:26 So going to the future, you may need to communicate to all cabinet secretaries on how to engage
00:35 the house.
00:37 And more particularly, once the chair has given direction on the matter, no minister
00:45 has any right to give value judgment on that direction.
00:51 Because what the content of that letter is giving value judgment on the direction of
00:58 the chair.
00:59 It's out of order and to cut a long story short, Minister, you will be required to rescind
01:07 in totality the content of that letter, tend an apology to the house, then we move on with
01:13 answering the questions that are before us.
01:17 Go ahead, Minister.
01:21 Thank you, Mr Speaker, honourable members of this very august house.
01:28 Let me, Mr Speaker, from the outset make it absolutely succinctly and unambiguously clear
01:37 that I subject myself to the authority and oversight of this house in totality.
01:46 That should not be in doubt whatsoever, honourable Speaker.
01:50 Let me also make it clear that the correspondence that has been referenced here was authored
01:58 and conveyed in good faith.
02:01 And I would apologise unreservedly if in any way that letter has created.
02:08 Don't give a conditional apology, Minister.
02:11 Just cut a long story short.
02:14 An apology should be unequivocal and clear.
02:19 Cut the long story short.
02:21 Rescind the contents thereof.
02:23 Apologise to the house.
02:24 We do business.
02:25 There are a lot of bills pending after this.
02:28 Mr Speaker, may I therefore, with a lot of respect, withdraw that correspondence and
02:34 unreservedly tend an apology to the honourable house.
02:39 Thank you.
02:40 Thank you.
02:41 Thank you.
02:42 Thank you.
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