HON. MUTSEYAMI: Thank you Mr. Speaker Sir. With all due respect, I am pleading with your office so that the Hon. Minister would come t...
HON. MUTSEYAMI:
Thank you Mr. Speaker Sir. With
all due respect, I am pleading with your office so that the Hon. Minister would
come to this House and give a full ministerial statement explaining clearly
with regard to how this issue of the $3 billion came to everything so that he
will not just present as he has just done.
With all facts and details to the House, we interrogate with questions
freshly and openly with all the grace. I
am very sure the Hon. Minister has no one to protect in all circumstances.
HON. SEN. RTD. AIR CHIEF MARSHALL SHIRI: Thank you Mr. Speaker Sir. I am not protecting anyone. I am stating facts as they are. I seem not to appreciate the need to come and
issue a ministerial statement given that I am able to give the required facts here. I have highlighted that the money in question
was used for the cotton input scheme, for the Presidential Input Scheme and for
the importation of grain – [HON. MEMBERS:
Inaudible interjections.] –
Hon. Members having stood up.
THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER:
No more points of order. May you
resume your seats Hon. Members. – [HON. MEMBERS: Inaudible interjections.] – -[HON. SEN. RTD. AIR CHIEF MARSHALL
SHIRI: Ndakumbovatuka mbijana.]-
HON. SEN. RTD. AIR CHIEF MARSHALL SHIRI: Mr. Speaker Sir, I am not addressing baboons
and monkeys. I am addressing people who
are supposed to listen when I am responding.
If they want me to respond and they want an answer, they have to give me
a chance to respond. Thank you Mr.
Speaker Sir – [HON. MEMBERS: Inaudible interjections.]
–
THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER:
No more points of order. Hon.
Members, may you resume your seats. – [HON. MEMBERS: No, no.] – [HON. MEMBERS: Inaudible interjections.] –
HON. MAMOMBE: Mr.
Speaker, I am the one who asked the question.
The Hon. Minister cannot refer to us as baboons and monkeys. We need sufficient answers Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, you need to protect us Sir. –
[HON. MEMBERS: Inaudible interjections.]
– [HON. MEMBERS: Mr. Speaker, there are no monkeys] -. We are not going to allow that kind of
language in this House. He has to
withdraw.
MDC Hon. Members sang a song – Intho oyenzayo siyayizonda,
whilst ZANU PF Hon. Members chanted – E. D. pfeee, E. D. pfeee.
MDC Hon. Members shouted - Chamisa, Chamisa and sang a song
Ndezve change, Nero, ndezve change Nero.
Hon. Members having continuously behaved disorderly, the
Temporary Speaker abruptly adjourned the House at Twenty-Six Minutes past Four
o’clock p.m.
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