John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

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• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: pensionable because the Parliamentary Pensions Act was not in place. So, those Members of Parliament who served from Independence to 1984 were paid Kshs1 million as ex-gratia payment, in line with the recommendation of the Justice Majid Cockar Commission. The rest of the Members of Parliament who served between 1984 and 2001 could not be paid ex-gratia because they were now covered by the Parliamentary Pensions Act of 1984. The recommendation in that Report was that those former Members of Parliament were earning peanuts in form of pension. I checked and found out that some of those former Members of ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: former Members of Parliament. The immediate former Member of Parliament for Rarieda, Hon. Nicholas Gumbo, attempted to bring an amendment to the House to amend the Act to allow the former Members of Parliament, who were numbering around 500 then, to get, at least, Kshs100,000. Unfortunately, Parliament was adjourned before this Bill was debated. When we resumed in the 12th Parliament, I was approached by those former Members of Parliament. Because this is something I have been following, I accepted to sponsor this Bill to the House. I want to mention the following. Looking at the numbers when this debate ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, some of them will tell you that they more or less served this country for free. They are unlike us. We are at least lucky as MPs even though there is too much demand on our salaries and allowances. At least, there is something you can go home with; something you can talk to your constituents with. In those days, some of the Members we are talking about would even sponsor Bills using their own money. Hon. Njeru Kathangu once told us that he had to use his money to sponsor a trip to go and look at ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi is shouting loudly. I know I am not supposed to have heard him but he is saying he sponsored the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Bill with his own money. By the way, in those days, there was no CDF. So, MPs, with their meagre resources, doubled as CDF. One may ask why July 1984 to 2001? The explanation is that before 1984, the Parliamentary Pensions Act was not in existence. So, you cannot amend an Act of Parliament to bring MPs to benefit when the law was not even in place. That is why ex-gratia payment was ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, being an MP has been criminalised in this country. Once you become an MP, even if you are very educated and a professional in an area, no one would believe that you have brains. You hardly see former MPs getting jobs. In fact, from the time we passed the new Constitution, we decided to criminalise the work of MPs. If you look at the BiIl that created the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), you will find that one of the disqualifications for being a member of CRA is having served as an MP, even though CRA membership is ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the victims of this situation are not just former MPs. Former councillors are miserable. How I wish part of the monies we waste in our counties – the monies that governors and the people who work around them embezzle – could be appropriated for former councillors. I wish former councillors could be given even Kshs30,000 for their medication. When it comes to giving out money that would add value to some lives, we are always quick at saying that we do not have money. However, public monies are embezzled and used to put up buildings, buy houses and ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view