John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: We need to tailor-make solutions depending on where people live. Do not tell people in villages about the Housing Levy. You cannot tell people in Garissa whose children are studying under trees that you want to build houses for them. Those are the actions of a government that lacks priorities. view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: As I conclude, I was nominated by my political party to represent workers in this Assembly. Now that the courts declared the Housing Levy unconstitutional, will the workers whose funds had been deducted get refunds? I say this because even if, at the very worst, this Bill is passed and declared constitutional, you cannot apply the law ultra vires or in reverse. Therefore, tafadhali, turudishie Wakenya pesa zao . view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We agreed that I would take exactly five minutes. I want to live to that. view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: It means I will take all the time left. I want to say on record that I was part of the team working on the Azimio Manifesto. I have heard many of us talking about what we had provided in our Manifesto. This is the problem of stealing other people’s ideas and implementing them wrongly. This is not what we intended or envisaged in our plan to provide affordable housing. Kenya Kwanza is lacking in creativity. I want to put the following on record. view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: One, if you look at Article 43, the idea behind this Article was not for the Government of Kenya to provide houses to Kenyans. That was not the objective. If that was the objective, how do you start taxing or levying fees on Kenyans today to provide houses yet this Article talks about other things? One of them is that Kenyans should be free from hunger, and have adequate food of acceptable quality. The other one is a right to clean and safe water. Are you telling us that tomorrow after this Levy, we should expect another levy to provide ... view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, this House must rise to the occasion and stop the Government of Kenya from extorting employed Kenyans, because this is extortion. We are having a government that is turning itself into an extortionist. You cannot force Kenyans to pay money to provide houses when they have not asked you that they need them. view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: You are telling us that these houses will be provided even in the rural constituencies. That you will go to Ukwala in your constituency, Hon. Temporary Speaker, and move Ugenya people to reside in Ukwala. Who told this Government that the people of Ugenya want to go and stay in Ukwala? Who told them that my people in Suba South which I have represented for 15 years want to go and reside in Sindo, Magunga or Nyandiwa? That is not what they want. Most of my constituents have houses. There are just a few who do not have houses. Some ... view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: You go to Brazil and understand the way the country was developed. What the Government needs to do is very simple. Forty per cent of the cost of a house is land. If you add that to social amenities, it goes beyond 50 per cent. What a responsible government would do is to have money; rearrange the budget of the Government to provide money through our taxes which we have already paid anyway. Remove corruption in the Government and make money available. Get land and once you have it make sure that there are roads leading to it, and there ... view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: develop houses and you agree and sign a contract that for a period of these years, they will charge this amount of rent. view
• 15 Feb 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to put it on record as a professional in matters finance that investment in housing or real estates is not a productive way of investment. The payback period for investing in a house is usually not less than 35 years. That is without factoring in time value of money. Therefore, you need not to take… view