John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

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• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: what happened in the previous financial year and projects what is likely to happen in the coming financial year. However, a lot of times we do not pay attention to it. Every quarter, the Controller of Budget prepares and submits to Parliament, as required by law, the performance of the budget for the previous quarter. We realised that much as we give sufficient attention to the approval of the Budget, we do not give equal attention to its implementation. That has a negative effect on the economy. Right now, with the problems that we have had up to now, most ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Chair of Agriculture as it was the case. He was diligently there throughout. The Chair of the Special Funds Committee, Hon. Kathuri, was there throughout, and one or two Chairs. The rest were Vice-Chairs. Next time, I want to plead with the Chairs, let us come together and engage. Hon. Pukose wants me to recognise him. I want to recognise Hon. Pukose, that he was there throughout as the Vice-Chair, but not as the Chair of the Committee. I am sure he had full authority. I was wondering how my Chair could forget Hon. Amos Kimunya, who was actually seated ... view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, many of us understand what the Petition is all about. We sympathise that the matter the petitioners are canvassing are weighty. But what those of us who are opposed to even discussing the issue here is what if someone 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 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: brings a petition to discuss whether God created me or not. As a Christian, I do not want to entertain that discussion. So, if the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs wants to go and investigate who is funding that, they should go and do it. But as Christians and people who respect God, we do not want to even entertain discussing this in the House. Our rules are very clear. You can talk to the departmental Committee to go and do it outside our involvement. As a Christian and a professed Seventh Day Adventist, I do not want ... view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I reject and oppose any extension or spending of public resources in discussing gay matters. I cannot support that. It is satanic and devilish. Those who want to discuss it should do that on their own, but not with the approval of the House. view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to second the Motion on the approval of this mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. I want to start by thanking our nine Member team from the National Assembly who participated in the mediation together with our counterparts from the Senate who were also nine. However, towards the tail end, we had difficulty raising quorum from the Senate side. At least, our team was faithfully present. If I can remember, in our second last meeting, out of nine Members of the National Assembly, eight of us were present. For the Senators, only ... view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: outsiders. Therefore, this matter needs to be investigated, so that value for money is realised. In our proposal, we have recommended an audit to look at this matter more seriously. The other issue that I wanted to mention is that it is not correct to say that we are allocating only Kshs316 billion to county governments. There is additional Kshs13.9 billion that comes from the nationally-raised revenue, which is being given to county governments as conditional grants. Besides, there is the Kshs8.9 billion Fuel Levy Fund which is again allocated to counties. On average, each county should get about Kshs192 ... view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: not enough. In fact, I said here yesterday that there was this argument that the CRA did professional, thorough research, so that it is the National Assembly that is disagreeing with a professional body that has done research and has come up with a figure that is fool-proof, a figure that makes a lot of sense, that is the Kshs335 billion. But do you know what the CRA did? They took what they call average inflation rate for the first three years, at 6.5 per cent, and loaded that inflation rate onto the figure we allocated last year of Kshs314 ... view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As a country, I think we need to hold conversation with each other and the National Treasury has let us down big time. Our projections are over-budgeted and we pretend that we can cover our Budget and end up borrowing more money, paying more interest and the cycle continues. The discussion is that the national Government is spending so much and being mean to counties yet there is no money. As I sit down, I want to say that I have realised from these figures that there is no money from our internally generated revenue which we spend on development ... view