John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: So, Hon. Deputy Speaker, in my considered opinion, which I seek your guidance on, I would recommend that Hon. Njagagua either pushes his amendments to the Senate or alternatively waits for six months. Finally, this law has a transition period of five years. So, it will not hurt even the stakeholders who are affected. They will not really hurt because there is a five-year period within which we can still amend and bring those provisions that we left out in the earlier legislation. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning has not understood my issue. What he has said is not true. view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I am not debating. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we considered in this Bill all the issues that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning is talking about. That is the issue of LAPTRUST and LAPFUND, including even employees whether they are working in the Executive or National Assembly. Those are issues that we debated here at length. Let me just put this point. view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I am on a point of order. view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is interesting that the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning did not even understand the Bill that we passed and he is the one who chaired it. The Bill that we passed collapsed the LAPTRUST and LAPFUND into one scheme. We have given then transition period of five years. I am saying that there could be issues that were left out but it is very simple. This Bill is still at the Senate. There is another House of Parliament. That is why Kenya is a bicameral system. The stakeholders like the COG ... view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Finally, there is another alternative which I have put across here. Hon. Njagagua can still bring amendments to the Act of Parliament after six months. I said that we have five years before this Act becomes fully operational. Hon. Njagagua can still bring amendments after six months. However, it is very untidy that we can pass a Bill to handle the pension issues or retirement benefits at the county, and then we come up with another Bill which is handling pension in the counties and pass it. If you want to refer to matters of pension in the county, which ... view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, it will be dishonest for me to sit in HBC, pass something and then I come and raise the issue here. When I raised this matter in the HBC, we said that it was difficult for HBC to remove a Bill from the records of Parliament. The Bill was already read here First Time. So, it can only be removed from the House through either Members rejecting or accepting it, or the Speaker making a ruling. That is why I decided to come and raise it here because in the HBC, you cannot take off Bill from ... view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I have a problem with having a crowd in the name of the Rules Committee. I do not know why we are still fixated with this mentality of eight provinces in the country. Why can we not collapse some of those branches and have representation instead of always thinking because we had eight provinces we must have eight representatives? It causes a lot of mess. Even when we want to appoint members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) we have to have eight plus one and other commissions the same thing applies. This ethnicises ... view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: There is no harm in speaking at the moment because I had difficulties with this Bill. You were not on the Chair at that time but the Deputy Speaker was. Now that we are debating the Bill, let me just put my points across very clearly. I want to thank Hon. Njagagua for bringing a legislation or proposed Bill to the House. Probably because this Bill came earlier, it would have been better if we dealt with it before the Government Bill that we dealt with. I would say without any fear of contradiction that in my view, the debate ... view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The Chair of the Committee has talked about two pension schemes. The LAPTRUST and the LAPFUND. He is forgetting that we have already collapsed those schemes into one through the Bill that we passed and sent to the Senate. I want to read what that Bill was for. It is, “An Act of Parliament to establish the county government retirement scheme for employees in the service of county governments to provide for retirement benefits of those employees and for connected purposes.” That is the Bill, and it went to the Senate. You cannot talk about LAPTRUST and LAPFUND, in five ... view