John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Leader of the Majority Party who has taken up his Job with a lot of vigour, I appreciate it. I want to second and support his sentiments. In the history of this country – I stand to be corrected – that I have read, I do not think that there is any other time that changes have been made in the committees of this House with the magnitude of the proposed changes that have been made on leadership of various committees. The Majority side has been leading most of the committees. ... view
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• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As I support the re committal, I just want to be very clear and say a few words. First, when it comes to matters of the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: stomach, people get so emotional. Today, listening to Hon. Ichung'wah, I am shocked because just the other day he was against the idea of reducing taxes, saying that we should tax, and use the money to feed the hungry. However, Hon. Speaker we need to be clear on what this House wants to do. What is the situation as it obtains? The situation as it obtains is that unga is exempted. Now, the option that is going to be available is to zero-rate it for six months during this COVID-19 period. Between exempt and zero-rating, zero-rating is better. Now, what ... view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Moreover, since Hon. Kimunya is not coming very far from him, I do not have any reason to doubt that. However, Hon. Speaker, what we want to do is to test this for six months and see if truly the consumers will get the benefit of reduced taxation because of zero-rating after which we will still be in this House. If we find that consumers are actually benefiting, there is no reason why we cannot extend that zero-rating as opposed to exemption. Therefore, Hon. Speaker, I know Hon. Ichung'wah is assuming his new role of opposing and I support him ... view
• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I will simply take one minute. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, we have had the tradition of amending so many laws through the Finance Bill. We should discourage this practice. Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, who is a very able MP, should kindly bring a substantive amendment to the Insurance Act and let us leave out this Clause so that we can have enough time to debate and discuss. We will be able to discuss all the issues that have been raised during the Second Reading and properly so. I oppose the amendment. Let us defeat it and wait for Hon. Ichung’wah to ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you have actually said it. As people of this country, we prepared a bed, let us sleep on it. We wanted a presidential system, we have it, so let us live with its shortcomings, so that we may appreciate the need to make some changes to the Constitution. We have tested it, we have tried it now for seven years and it is not working in many aspects including accountability, which is cardinal in any democracy. So, when we approach the time or the period, let us take the opportunity. Although we disagree with Hon. Duale on many ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: We have an opportunity ahead of us. We should not even think of coming up with a way of bringing CSs here. They are strangers who we do not want in this House. Even when the CS for the National Treasury and Planning comes here, we operate more like a committee of the whole House. My view is that those Members who entertain the thought that we can bring CSs here, let us deal with the situation as it is. When there are Questions, let us invite the CSs and Members to be present and deal with it until when ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: For those of us who are a bit unlucky and not likely to be CSs, we wish well those who will be here. In fact, you will be very powerful people. When we come to you, please, treat us well. view