John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. Allow me also to reciprocate the magnanimity of Sen. Boni Khalwale by saying that I also appreciate the Senator for being proactive in this matter and not waiting until there are challenges out of this freeze of funding, to now ask questions. He is being proactive and asking well in advance. Since the Senator has read the question, I do not want to read it again. However, it is Question No. 025. This is my response. First and foremost, allow me to acknowledge the invaluable support from the Government of the United States of America ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: Sorry, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Perhaps I can now continue. Under education, I said that there is a US$ 22.3 million. Giving examples of where this money will have been spent or would be spent is improving early grade literacy across public primary schools. I want to single out that there was support to public Technical Vocational Education Training (TVETs) in Kilifi, Mombasa, Nakuru and Machakos to align training to industry needs, providing scholarships to the youth to attend TVETs and support for the newly established Open University of Kenya (OUK) to build systems for infrastructural, instructional delivery and establish partnerships ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: With the affected State Departments, we are conducting a review of our existing budget allocations to prioritise funding for essential services in sectors such as health, education, governance and food security to be included in the budget estimates of supplementary budget three, if it becomes very necessary. If this funding stops abruptly and there are critical areas, we cannot wait for the 2025/2026 budget. Likewise, county governments are also expected to act accordingly to ensure uninterrupted service delivery for devolved functions. We are also engaging with other development partners to explore opportunities for additional funding and technical assistance to plug ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: deliberate efforts will be put in place to strike a right balance between the need to create a stronger and more reliable revenue stream and the need to protect the critical masses who have been grossly affected by the prevailing macroeconomic shocks. To strengthen expenditure control and improve efficiency and effectiveness in public spending, the Government will; rationalize and reduce non-essential expenditure, roll out an end-to-end E-procurement system to maximize value for money and increase transparency in procurement, operationalize the Oublic Investment Management Information System to automate public investment management process, revamp the public service pension administration through digitization and ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: financial year 2025/2026 and in the medium-term budget. Sector Working Groups (SWG) are required to eliminate wasteful expenditures and pursue priorities which are aimed at safeguarding livelihoods, creating jobs, reviving businesses and economic recovery. I want to add that we have already put a zero-based budgeting model into the IFMIS for the budget that we are processing at the moment. SWG should also ensure that all expenditure items in the financial year 2025/2026 budget are justified and emphasis is placed on allocating the limited resources based on program efficiency and requirement than incremental budgeting. Before I finish, I wanted to ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to quickly address the two issues that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has raised. Regarding his regrets, I agree that funding issues like advocacy and support for fighting corruption will certainly be affected, and we may not have enough resources to support such programmes. However, this is regrettable because we really need accountability in the country. So, I agree with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale on that. Secondly, on the issue of Universal Health Coverage, I want to agree with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale that this programme is contentious everywhere in the world. There is no ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: So, what am I going to do from the Treasury perspective? From the Treasury, I am going to insist on rationalising our budget to put money where it is needed. I just want to tell Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale that the National Treasury has supported SHA. It is not true that we have not supported it. Even in the current supplementary two, we have a location of Kshs6 billion to support SHA, three billion to support primary health care, and another three billion to support critical care. By the way, it may interest Members to understand that, from the information I ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to begin by saying that it is really refreshing to be back here wearing a different cap. You may recall that we spent a better part of the Tenth Parliament in this Chamber as the other one was being renovated. Having said that, Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to register my apology. Last time I was supposed to appear in the Senate, I got engaged. Therefore, I did not appear. I was prepared to come and answer questions on that day when in the evening His Excellency the President gave me the nod to ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: In part (b) of the question, the Senator wanted to know where the convenience fee charged and all other payments that fail to reflect on the platform end up. This is my response: The e-Citizen platform only collects convenience fee for successful transactions. When a user or citizen makes a payment, the payment will be collected first by the payment service providers’ channels which include mobile money for mobile network operators, Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and e-deposits for banks or wallets for non-bank payment service providers. The e-money is then channeled to the e-Citizen collection account at Kenya Commercial ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: collected Kshs100.842 billion. In one year, the collections increased from Kshs26.406 billion to Kshs100.842 billion. We have managed to reduce leakages in the system. Having a single Pay Bill of 222222 has worked very well and visibility of our transactions has been enhanced. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I submit. view