John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon Speaker. My point of order is on something different from what we were discussing. Hon. Wario has ably presented the Statement. The rest can be followed up later. I am going to be brief because I know we should get to the main business that brought us here. I am rising under Standing Order No.44(2)(b), which says: “The Leader of the Majority Party, or the Leader of the Minority Party as the case may be, or their designees may make a statement relating to their responsibilities in the House or the activities of a committee.” I am ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: My concern is from the reports I am getting. Up to this moment, these amounts have not been released to these hospitals to allow them to prepare to address any spike of COVID-19 cases. To me, this is a clear case of the Executive being careless. I want to request, as far as oversight is concerned, using my position, the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health and the Chairperson of the Committee on Implementation, to follow through this matter and find out if the National Treasury has not released money to the Ministry of Health. If not, it should ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: the Ministry of Health has received the money, the money should go to these health facilities, so that it is spent to provide services that we earmarked that money for. That is what I wanted to raise. If you allow me, I do not see the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health, but I am sure she will get the Hansard and act on this matter. Thank you. view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as you had pointed out earlier, business is just about to begin. This afternoon we have quite a packed agenda to discuss, but more importantly is the Finance Bill that Hon. Duale has spoken to. This House will recall in the Financial Year 2011/2012, after the passage of the Constitution, there was a paradigm shift in terms of processing the Appropriations Bill. Previously, processing the Appropriations Bill was very easy. We could even pass it after June. But immediately we passed the Constitution, it became mandatory that the Appropriations Bill must be passed and assented to before 30th ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: conduct Committee of the whole House on the Finance Bill and have the Appropriations Bill go through all the stages, conclude it and have the two Bills prepared by the House and put in order by our staff for onward transmission to the President, so that by Friday, he can assent to these two Bills to become law. The Government would then have the authority of the people’s representative not only to spend, but also to collect money. Hon. Speaker, I second. view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. This year’s Finance Bill, 2020 is one of those Finance Bills that have few proposals of amendments to our tax laws. I think since I came to this Parliament, this is the most limited in terms of proposals to vary rates of taxes. It is interesting to note that we are coming up with this Bill with many changes at a time this country seriously needs revenue. That is something that, as we discuss this Bill as a House, we need to take note of. As I congratulate the ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Committee for doing a good job and making various proposals to reverse some of the recommendations by the Cabinet Secretary, I hope that when we get to the Committee of the whole House… I must confess that I have not read the details of the Report of the Committee. What I did was simply to take the Finance Bill and analyze it. So, my contribution will be based on the original Bill without the benefit of the Report of the Committee. However, I hope the Committee has tabulated and calculated how much we are going to lose by making various ... view
• 18 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: So, it is important that we look at the message that some of those proposals send to the economy and the possible effects. In fact, one of the reasons why capital gains tax was a hot debate in this country is what message it was going to send. Actually, it was not that the capital gains tax is a bad tax. It is very good, because those who make money out of capital gains are rich people. Very few poor people invest in the NSE or even put up real estate. How many Kenyans get involved in real estate business? ... view
• 16 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The MP for Rarieda, Hon. Otiende Amollo is away He had some issues to sort out in the constituency and so, I am fully briefed. I do not know if he wrote to your Office. Maybe, he did not. I will counsel him next time that he should be informing you of his absence. But if there is anything that is meant to be directed to him, I am here and will stand in for him. I thank you. view