John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, while I appreciate your ruling which is very exhaustive and actually took a lot of work, I congratulate you for it. But two things have come out. view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: One, which is a bit interesting is that, now belonging to parliamentary parties is a disadvantage. It is going to be a disadvantage in the House because you can easily be disciplined and removed from the committees. But, if you belong to a “briefcase” party, you are very lucky. The moment you get into the committees, it is hard to get out. It sends a message to us who belong to the big parties that, in future, we will be very careful with the committees that we give to the other Members. view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Again, what I also notice and which, I think, we are going to do is that it appears that the Committee on Selection - and I am happy that, that window exists - is going to look at the committees afresh. You have now given us a very good opportunity now to deal even better with these Members. If a Member is from a small party or Independent party and has been enjoying some committees which my Members, who have fought very hard to make my party big, should belong to, rest assured that if I take such a Member ... view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: I want to send a message to those who are celebrating that some window has been opened to us very well through the Committee on Selection and we are going to make sure… They are going to have committees, but the best that some of them will get is probably the Committee on Members Services and Facilities. view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution to the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2020/2021. view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: First, let me start by thanking and congratulating the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which I am a Member, for a job well done. A credible Budget is prepared through a process that is considered transparent, accountable, comprehensive and faithful to the political direction. If I put it in simple terms, a credible Budget is one where the Government, through budgetary allocations of resources, tries to actualise what it says so that it is done to the citizenry. We are all aware that the Constitution 2010 gave more powers or conferred the power of the purse to this House, unlike previously ... view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: This Budget was prepared at a time that we consider very difficult. When we were passing the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) in February, no one imagined that we would discuss the Budget Estimates under the kind of environment that we are in where we face multiple challenges. I do not think that there is any time in the history of this country that we have ever prepared a Budget with the kind of challenges that we have today. We not only have the challenges of the COVID- 19 pandemic or health crisis, but also have challenges of flooding which have ... view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Jobs need to be protected for those who already have them. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenyans were facing high rates of unemployment. With the health crisis, we expect more people to be unemployed. Therefore, it is the duty of the Government to ensure that jobs are protected. When the Budget Estimates were tabled here, for the first time, the Budget and Appropriations Committee engaged with the National Treasury from the word go. We quickly picked the failure or limitation of that Budget in addressing the current challenges. We realised The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 9 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: that the Budget was prepared in a business as usual manner. We invited the National Treasury and we discussed the issue. I am happy because after that discussion, at least, some funds have been specifically provided targeted towards economic stimulus package. However, this is not enough. SMEs must still be protected further. I know that there is some little money that is provided in the Budget for the same but we still need to do more. view