John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1991 to 2000 of 7480.

• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, there is trouble and we are at the cliff. To reduce public debt and get out of this problem, we need to have a balanced budget and work towards a budget surplus. That is the bare minimum that we can give the people of Kenya especially where we are. National Treasury must adhere to the ceilings being approved today and more domestic mobilisation must be done to reduce public debt. I remember when ODM was supporting the Finance Bill of last year we gave conditions that the public expenditure must be reduced. We must tighten the belt. For ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Report of the Committee. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: As I made my contribution regarding the earlier reports by the Committee, it needs to be congratulated for the work they are doing in bringing reports on the audited accounts of NG- CDF utilisation in various constituencies. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: There is something I told the Office of the Auditor-General and yesterday I told Edward Ouko, our Auditor-General that he cannot convince me that he lacks capacity to carry out effective audits in counties because I see how his office audits NG-CDF. It does so seriously and we need to praise them for that. When it comes to the NG-CDF, the Office of the Auditor- 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 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: General audits money, including imprests, and even Kshs600,000 that we give to a primary school to construct a classroom. To me, that is through effective audit of public funds. But when it comes to audit of county governments, they claim to lack capacity and do not do a good job. The answer to this is simple, they come and do their work when it comes to NG-CDF, but when it comes to county governments, they go for rent-seeking and once they are given money, that is all. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: We need to borrow from the way the NG-CDF is spent. I saw reports about some constituencies and I could see the way the issue has been sensationalised. If there is any Government funding in this country that is properly utilised, it is the NG-CDF. I know there are a few cases where there is embezzlement here and there but it is not as rampant as other Government budgeted amounts. Kenya has reached a stage – when we were interrogating the Budget Policy Statement – where we do not question certain actions which border on corruption. But, instead, we praise ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Although my friend, Hon. Iringo, thought that I was complaining about what he said, I wanted to support his comments. There are two things I want to say. We need to interrogate the policy by the Ministry of Education of 100 per cent transition as a Parliament. We cannot play politics with the future of our children. We played politics with the tablets, but we are now back to constructing computer labs. We cannot afford to play politics with the future of our children; insisting that we are able to have 100 per cent transition when we do not even ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: A fundamental thing that this House must do and where I slightly disagree with Hon. Iringo - but understand him - is when he talks about some constituencies that are bigger than others in population and geographical areas and yet, they receive equal allocation of NG-CDF with other constituencies. But why did we go for equal allocation? We did that because discretion has failed in this country. Let us accept that. Let us go and get the distribution of the infrastructure fund we allocate to the Ministry of Education. It goes to some specific areas while others get nothing. The ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Chair appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee telling us to give them Kshs8 billion to return because they spent some money from the Kenya Roads Board after the rains fell to reconstruct roads. I asked where the roads were constructed. My constituency, apart from the normal Kshs21 million which goes to every constituency, has not received any extra coin yet I am told that money has been disbursed to constituencies. That is lack of equity and we cannot support it. This House must try as much as possible to distribute the budget lines in this House. If we allow ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view