John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1521 to 1530 of 7480.

• 15 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to make my contribution to the request for the National Assembly to exercise its powers in the Constitution of approving degazettement of gazetted forests. If you look at the Petition and the Report, that forest was gazetted in 1932. That is way back. The total area was in excess of 91,000 hectares. This is a huge forest. Whereas I support this Motion, the justification given in the Report of the Committee for us to approve degazettement of about 4,000 hectares for proper settlement – those people are not properly settled in terms of documentation ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: instead of settling people who really lack land and need settlement, we end up with people with land elsewhere being settled there. I hope that will not happen. But I do not see a good reason for excising that forest because the Executive had indicated, through their Petition, that the forest will be degazetted in exchange for another one, which is Chepkitale. But it is clear in this Report that the residents of Chepkitale disagreed with that assertion. They have even stated that they were not ready to discuss the exchange of their ancestral land for allocation of land in ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: the part of KFS. They have the appetite for looking for more areas to gazette as forests and yet, they cannot protect the forests that have already been gazetted. In my constituency, there is a forest which is over 4,000 hectares, but it has been destroyed completely by loggers - the people who encroach and cut trees. The KFS demand that we add 2,000 hectares to that forest for more water catchment areas and yet, they cannot even protect the existing forest. I do not know what happened with KFS. When I was growing up, I used to see KFS ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you, for indulging. Let me make a quick comment. I am a bit confused with the concern that has been raised. How? When we appropriate money, it is on a budget line and vote line. A Government has a voting system through which our budget is arranged and rearranged. For the first time, we did a programme-based budget. So, these monies cannot be moved from one area to another. If it is a programme that has been moved from one Ministry to another it is the work of the Executive. The Executive can reorganise itself the way ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: departmental committee but even in the Public Accounts Committee. Unless the Committee that is complaining comes out clearly to explain to the House exactly the crime the Executive has committed, we may be discussing something that is really not wrong. The Executive has the leeway and a legal framework. They can shift or change programmes from one Ministry to another or from one state department to another. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: They can. Hon. Speaker, Hon. Duale was consulting you. He has just come back and has not even listened to what I have said and yet he is already leading a troop saying no. But what I know is that we do a programme-based budget at the moment. Why would we be concerned about Government taking a programme to another department to execute or implement it? Let it be implemented where the Executive feels it should be implemented and if there is crime committed, the Auditor-General will pick it up and bring it to the House; unless there is something ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As for my brother, friend and classmate, Hon. Musimba, I request him to bring a law on public participation. We are lacking a law regulating public participation. He has a point, but we need to bring a law that will spell out how public participation needs to be conducted. Let me now contribute to the Motion before us. First of all, we need to be very clear and understand exactly what this House is required to do this afternoon. That is very important. We owe it to the people of Kenya, as their representatives, to explain ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: We moved to a system where Parliament amended the law to define the upper limit or the debt ceiling to 50 per cent of GDP. As we speak, and let us be very candid with each other, that law has been violated by the Government of Kenya. The debt limit today of Kshs5.81 trillion is above 50 per cent of the GDP. This House needs to be very candid to Kenyans and tell them that one of the main reasons the Government has come to us to amend the law to change the upper limit or the debt ceiling is ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: If you allow me, I will mention some of those projects. One of them is Dongo Kundu Bridge where we lost two lives the other day. It is about the transport from Kwale to the Island of 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
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Mombasa. We cannot start that project. There is a financier to finance the project, but we cannot borrow the money because the law prohibits or stops us from doing that. There is a road from Garissa to Mandera, which is supposed to be financed through multilateral institutions. It cannot be constructed until and unless we allow the Executive, through a legislation, to borrow more money. The question that we need to address is whether we should allow the debt limit to go to Kshs9 trillion or a lower figure. That is the question the Budget and Appropriations Committee belaboured. The ... view