Speaker of the National Assembly, Job Ndugai decided to suspend the morning session just few minutes after the end of the spontaneous questions session to the Prime Minister, following an abrupt failure of microphones in the debating chamber.
The failure of the microphones started immediately after Mr Ndugai invited Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa to the podium of the debating chamber so that he could field impromptu questions from law makers.
The first legislator in the list of the House speaker was Mlalo MP, Abdallah Shangazi (CCM). Hardly had he stood up to ask his questions, than his microphone failed.
An attempt by the MP to test several microphones on the side of the legislators from the ruling party proved futile, as Mr Ndugai asked him to match on the other side of the opposition MPs where microphones were working.
All CCM MPs who wanted to ask questions were not able to do so, instead Speaker of the National Assembly directed them to move on the podium of the debating chamber that has two microphones.
Therefore, at the podium, Mr Majaliwa used one microphone to respond to questions, while some MPs whose microphones were not working asked their questions from another side through the second microphone.
Members of the press who sit at a special gallery in parliament could not be able to capture the questions and answers properly as the voice from the debating chamber kept on disappearing.
This prompted the Speaker of the House to adjourn the session temporarily to allow the parliament’s technical team to sort out the technical glitch. Automatically, the Question and Answer session which usually follows after the questions to the Prime Minister went missing.
Questions that were set to be asked by MPs will come up again today. The technical hitches in the debating chamber came barely two weeks after total overhauling of equipment in the debating chamber amounting to 1.9bn/-, according to parliament records.
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