John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: On the money that has been allocated to the Nairobi Metropolitan Railway, this is the explanation we got. We had actually rejected it, but the Ministry explained it as follows and I want the House to really understand the explanation that was offered to us. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: One, the total allocation in the original Budget, I am sure my former Chair knows this, was Kshs3.6 billion. The National Treasury on their own volition - and this House did not prompt them - brought a recommendation under Supplementary Budget II to reduce that amount from Kshs3.6 to Kshs900 million, a reduction of Kshs2.7 billion. Now, the National Treasury has owned up that they made a mistake; that they had already issued an Exchequer to the Ministry to implement this project. Therefore, for the Kshs2.7 billion, they can only surrender Kshs900 million and were asking us to return the ... view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: was the budget then. But the mistake the National Treasury made, and that is the quarrel we have with it, is: How could the National Treasury release money and then ask the House to re-allocate the same money they had already released to the line Ministry? That sounded a little funny but we realise there has been a transition in that Ministry that I find taking too long. I ask my friend Ukur Yatani to settle in that Ministry properly. I know there could be people who are not doing things right there. But, that is where we are. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I do not want to go further. There is the Kshs280 million and Kshs350 million. Those are donor funded. So I have no issue or quarrel with them. I have no quarrel with donor funded projects. On the Kshs3.4 billion, my Vice-Chair who is now the Acting Chair has ably explained that it is money to pay health workers. Again, we were concerned a bit but that is money going to frontline health workers. What I would ask the departmental committee is to oversee it and make sure it is spent on that line. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: My final comment is on the Judiciary. There is Kshs324 million that the Judiciary requested to re-allocate from operations and maintenance to salaries because there were some arrears of salaries the Judiciary needed to pay. We debated this and we felt that there was no need of denying the Judiciary the request to re-allocate money from operations and maintenance to salaries because really, operations and maintenance is just recurrent expenditure. Salaries, to me, are a better recurrent expenditure than operations. Operations and maintenance is money for people to enjoy themselves with. But salaries are something that makes livelihood of people. ... view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have done justice to this Motion in seconding it. I do not think I could do more. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I beg to second. view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have two issues that are related to the matter before us. The first one, which I think you have almost settled, is that this matter has been so politicized. It important that the Chair holds a meeting as early as possible for immediate intervention because there are people who are crying for their livelihoods and are already being deprived of their way of life. It is important that the Chair prioritises this matter because I can see that there is politicisation of this matter, which if not managed properly, innocent people may suffer consequences. Hon. ... view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The people of Kenya in 2010 decided, through the provision of Article 124 of the Constitution, to provide this House with powers to create Standing Orders to guide orderly conduct of proceedings in this House and the conduct of Members. We actually created Standing Orders based on that Article of the Constitution. In addition, one of the things that we provide for - having foreseen that some Members may act in a manner that would not give dignity and honour to this House- was to provide within the Standing Orders what we call the "disorderly conduct" ... view
• 25 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we even went further to amend that Standing Order 107 to create Standing Order 107A, which talks about the gross disorderly conduct of a Member of Parliament. Among the provisions, what constitutes gross disorderly conduct is that and I quote: “(1) A Member commits an act of gross disorderly conduct if the Member— (a) defies a ruling or direction of the Speaker or Chairperson of Committees…” It goes ahead to say: “(h) acts in any other way to the serious detriment of the dignity or orderly procedure of the House.” Hon. Speaker, on Tuesday, you actually made a ... view