John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Matters foreign relations must be treated carefully and cautiously. I urge my colleagues, Members of Parliament, that much as we may want to seek publicity and popularity; much as we would want to seek for votes, we must remember that the wider interest of the country overrides any other interest. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: It was reckless for an honourable Member to start threatening those he called “foreigners” residing and doing business in our country. The relationship between Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and, indeed, all African nations is strong. In fact, some of us are thinking that we should not even have these borders because these imaginary borders were created by colonialists. As a Continent, we need to promote cross-border movements and interactions. Kenyans should go to Tanzania to seek employment and do business so long as the business that they conduct there is legal. Those Tanzanians who are conducting business in Kenya should also ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I just want to wind up by saying the following two issues: One, as the Leader of the Minority Party, I want to associate myself with the sentiments by Hon. ole Metito that it was not Kenya’s policy to chase away Ugandans, Tanzanians, Somalis or Sudan Sudanese or even Ethiopians so long as they are here legally and are doing business legally. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Two, I want to advise those who are seeking cheap popularity that majority of those who have behaved like that in the past have never made it back to Parliament. There is a former Member of Parliament from a neighbouring constituency - and I will not mention his name – 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
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: who came to this House dressed in tattered clothes thinking he was seeking sympathy. He went for a by-election and lost. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: What is out of order? I am just advising. How can I be out of order when I am offering advice? Let me conclude by saying that this country and, especially, elected leaders must come out strongly to condemn what Hon. Kanyi said in a public rally which has now brought diplomatic misunderstanding between Kenya and Tanzania. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Basically what we would have done is very simple. The budget-making process started a while ago realistically with the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), then the Budget Estimates, we went through the Committee of Supply and now we are in the Appropriations Bill, which is just the summation of figures and amounts appropriated to various votes. However, I am aware there are a few amendments which will come. Some of them are harmless because they are just trying to align budget lines supposed to be effected. I think one amendment which stands out is the one to ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: because as a legislator and politician I understand and appreciate, but we need to ask ourselves how much. Initially, Senators wanted Kshs2 billion. If you divide Kshs2 billion by the 67 Senators and decide to give them the same amount, it comes to over Kshs2.4 million per month per Senator. I asked myself: “How do you give Senators Kshs2.5 million every month just to go hold public barazas and call people around?” We are the ones who lowered it to Kshs500 million. That still comes to Kshs624,000 per month per Senator. My worry is this. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The Leader of the Majority Party is holding another baraza here which Senators want to hold. I need to be understood properly. Members of Parliament, especially those of us from the 290 constituencies need to understand. You have other elected leaders. We have the governors whom we know very well take public money and conduct Harambees and hold meetings with them illegally. Almost all of them do that. You have the Senators who also want money to go and hold those barazas . You also have our colleagues, 47 MPs, whose allocation is so liberal. In fact, for the first ... view