John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Yes. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I listened carefully to the point of order that was raised by Hon. Melly on behalf, I think, of his Committee. He raised his concerns regarding Standing Order No. 90, which the Leader of the Majority Party has ably expounded and asked even more from the Hon. Speaker to make a ruling on. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: First, I think this issue of conflict of interest is a matter that needs to be dealt with because even if you look at our Standing Orders, it is not very clear on what happens after declaration of interest. Standing Order No. 90 just requires a Member who wishes to speak on any matter in which the Member has a personal interest to first declare that interest. What is required of a Member is to declare interest then you go ahead to speak. The Standing Order does not limit the Member on what to say or what not to say. ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, pecuniary interest is pecuniary interest; it is not any other interest. You could have other interests but if it is not pecuniary interest nothing stops you from voting on a matter that you have any other interest. So, the issue before us is really confusing so to speak: that if a Member has an interest on a matter and has declared it so what happens? According to the Standing Orders, you are allowed to speak on that matter even after declaring interest. Actually, it says when you want to speak, you should not even declare that interest if ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Education and Research because he understands, and we thought he would enrich Committee deliberations on matters education. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: So, I think we are deficient of information as to how these Members made the work of the Committee difficult by participating in these meetings. If the interest is talking about teachers, I think that is exactly why Hon. Sossion is here, to speak about their issues. Hon. Speaker, one of the outstanding reasons why Hon. Omboko Milemba won, and probably there are many other reasons, is because he has been in KUPPET and through this he earned exposure by speaking for teachers. If he comes to the Floor of the House to represent teachers and he does not speak, ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Finally, to me what has been abused is where we go to Committees to protect our personal interests and when Members speak for the Executive. In fact, as far as I am concerned any Member asking an Executive official a question, however discomforting it is, that is representation and what we expect is oversight. It is the duty of the Chair of the Committee to manage the Member trying to go out of that representation. As I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party that sometimes our Members may abuse their privileges, but again we need to be very ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with those many comments, I just want to state that you have a very tricky work ahead of you. Hon. Speaker, I can see you are being interrupted, but I want you to get my concern, that Standing Order No. 90 talks of a Member declaring interest only when he wants to speak. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: This means, if you just go there and sit, even if you are a Member of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, nothing forces you to declare your interest, until when you want to speak. Therefore, why is it a requirement that when you want to speak, you are required to declare that interest? It is so that everybody knows that this person either has a lot of information or is likely to speak in a manner that is supposed to show some kind of interest that he has. But, personal interest is difficult to define here. We need ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I know the Standing Order has attempted to talk about pecuniary interests etcetera . When view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: . Omboko Milemba goes to ask why teachers are being transferred, certainly it is not him being transferred, and he cannot be transferred to Migori. So, what is personal there, I do not see because he is representing teachers. Even, Mbadi can ask because I have a brother or a sister who is a teacher. Is that personal interest? If I am representing my electorate then all of us will have interest because we have electorate who are teachers. To me, the Chair of the Committee needs to explain what his problem was, because there seems to be one but ... view