John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: My reasoning then was drawn from Articles 95 and 96 of the Constitution. If you read Article 95 of the Constitution on the functions of the National Assembly, it is clear that the National Assembly “(a) determines the allocation of national revenue between the levels of government, as provided in Part 4 of Chapter twelve”. It means between national and county governments. When you go to Article 96 on the role of the Senate, there is no provision where it says that the Senate shall determine the allocation of national revenue between the two levels of Government. It just says ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Let me also take this opportunity to thank and congratulate this Departmental Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity for coming up with amendments to this Act. I want to give some historical background to this Act, how it came about, why we are where we are and why the court found that some of the provisions in this Act are unconstitutional, which has necessitated these amendments. We all remember that after the Post- Election Violence (PEV) of 2017, there was the committee that was put in place to try and resolve the issues. Part ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: (Suba South, ODM) view
• 7 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The murders happening in Kakamega are chilling. It is almost bordering on genocide. Where I disagree a little bit with Washiali is that this could be economically engineered. When you look at the houses of some of the families which are targeted, they look so poor that you wonder what anyone who wants economic gain would be going to do in such places. Our security apparatus needs to seriously look into this matter. It is not even a matter of the number of police officers. We need intelligence gathering. If we can manage to get ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, at the rate we are going, if we are not careful, we will be here forever. I was thinking that the Chair should not preempt the reaction of the House by just procedurally moving the amendments. He should say: “I beg to move that we delete…” a certain clause. Then after that he quickly tells us why. Whether the reaction is negative or positive, he has done his bit. But the way I see the Chair, he is already preempting that the House may be hostile to the amendment. He is trying to plead with us ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the Chair would have persuaded us if he told us that these offences that are being subjected to a fine of Kshs1 million do not warrant that kind of penalty. You see, there could be a reason why the Government has picked these particular offences. The offences could be numerous, but some are light offences and some could be serious offences that require heavy penalties. So, in my view, gambling has been a big challenge and to me, just having a fine of Kshs5,000 does not make sense. If the Chair feels that others also need ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I just want to tell my friend, T.J. Kajwang’, because he always comes up with very progressive things, that one way through which Parliament can discourage a bad habit is by either overtaxing it or putting in place high penalties. In fact, putting in place high penalties is the perfect way of discouraging bad behaviour. So, if the kiosks are being opened in villages and we say that it is bad, we should set this high amount for the kiosks to close shop and go home. Betting is something that we should make sure we finish. ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to help Hon. Kajwang’ by reminding him that this House is of traditions and precedents. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: This is not the first time a chair of a committee has withdrawn amendments which had been processed through a committee. If the Committee will feel that the Chairman has acted in a manner that does not inspire their confidence, they will deal with him. The owner of the amendments is the chair of a committee. We do not know other Members here. If the Chair has said he is withdrawing an amendment, it will save time. We should move on. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can ... view