Hon members, on 13 November during Minister's Responses to Members' Statements, the Minister for the Public Service and Administration rose on a point of order to suggest that hon Bhanga had misled the Assembly when he claimed that the President had rejected the outcome of the National Census.
I would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm that presiding officers cannot be expected to adjudicate on the accuracy or otherwise of statements, as this would indeed lead to endless disputes regarding the facts. Members must be allowed to present different interpretations of events in political discourse as, of course, it is the right of Ministers to have a different interpretation. Hon Bhanga's statement therefore stands.