John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: We are exposing Kenyans - including mama mbogas in the streets - who were promised that this Levy will only affect those who are salaried with payslips, to unnecessary harassment by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). To impose this Levy on people who do not have salaries is going to be a nightmare. What we are doing is allowing the KRA officers to be snooping and harassing Kenyans, including farmers. What this provision means is that, if you were to go to your farm, get maize and sell it, a levy is supposed to be imposed on that gross produce ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: I can see the Leader of the Majority Party gesturing; I do not know for what. I have just mentioned that... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, what I was saying is very important. I may need to repeat it. The provision under Clause 4 is very dangerous. I would urge that this matter is re-looked into. For the farmers in the village, after producing their crops and selling their produce, they will be required to surrender 1.5 per cent of their gross produce to the Housing Levy. That is punitive and it is going to lead to unnecessary harassment of ordinary Kenyans by the KRA. I can see the Leader of the Majority Party laughing. When he was moving this Motion, he said that ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As I support this Report of the National Dialogue Committee, I want to mention a few things. Firstly, for a discussion or dialogue of this nature to be there, it certainly has to be preceded by some kind or form of crisis. We had a crisis as has been ably talked about by our Leader of the Minority Party. I have been around from 15th January 2008. I have been in this Chamber for more than 16 years, and every time, from the 10th Parliament, when we had post- election violence, we have kept on ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, some people call it winner takes it all, and others call it the feeling and sense of exclusivity and inclusivity. We need to ask ourselves why some Kenyans feel that they belong to this country more than others, especially when elections are conducted. Looking at this Report, I think we are not solving this problem. If we have decided that the presidential system is not working for us, why not go the whole hog – the parliamentary system? Why create systems that are difficult to understand like the one of the Office of the Opposition Leader when ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Finally, is the issue of cost of living. My friend, those are opinions. Wait for your time. Who can help this Member of Parliament? My last comment, if you allow me, is on the cost of living. Let us not pretend and cheat ourselves that it has gone down. It is only food driven inflation which has gone down because we have had good rains. It has nothing to do with inputs. If rains fail for a season in this country, we will go back to where we were. Whenever we have good rains in this country, we have good ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Baya has no point of order. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: As I conclude, when you hear the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party talking about the Dollar going down, what does he really mean? Talk about things that make sense. Which Dollar is going down and which Shilling is going up? view
• 20 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: I am relevant. I was talking about the NADCO Report. It is Hon. Owen Baya who has brought the Dollar issue which is not in the Report. The cost of living has not gone down. It will not go down given the way this Government is managing our economy. If rains fail for one season, we would be worse off than we were last year. Let us not cheat ourselves. Let us address the issue of the cost of living with clear minds and professionalism. Let us bring technical people who understand how systems work, and not academicians like Dr. ... view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On the Statement that the Leader of Majority Party has just given, I was wondering because I made some legislative proposals way back last year, around May. On June, I was called before the Committee to defend my proposal which was on a very important amendment to our Public Financial Management (PFM) Act, anchoring Article 223 of the Constitution in Law. My worry is that the Committees of Parliament, which are supposed to facilitate our work, seem not to be working expeditiously. I, therefore, do not know who to place my frustrations on. Since this is ... view