John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you. Hon. Baya is my very good student. I know whatever he says is in good faith. I want to take it as such. Let me conclude by saying that, as the Chairperson of PAC, we are just concluding on Financial Year 2020/2021. The Report will be here at the end of July. We will start on Financial Year 2021/2022 and conclude it latest in October. We will not have any pending financial year. However, we cannot stop talking about emerging issues. PAC is a post-mortem audit committee. Hon. Temporary Speaker, give me one more minute. Immediately after we ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Unfortunately, I was not present when the Committee of Ways and Means was deliberating on various vote-heads. However, in the short time that you have allocated me, I will just highlight a few things. I am worried about this Budget. When President Ruto took power, he said that he was going to reduce the 2022/2023 Financial Year budget by Ksh300 billion. That has not happened. Instead, what we are seeing today is an increase of Ksh544 billion in the 2023/2024 Financial Year Budget from the Budget of 2022/2023 Financial Year. The total budget is rising from ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: If you look at this Budget, you will see that it is broken down into Executive expenditure, Parliament, Judiciary and other Consolidated Fund Services (CFS). The financing of this Budget is going to be a challenge. This country is deluding itself that it can raise ordinary revenues from Ksh1,917,000,000,000 in the current Financial Year to Ksh2,571,000,000,000 in the next Financial Year. That is an increase of Ksh653 billion. That is very ambitious and unrealistic. It will likely not be realised. The total revenue projected to be collected is going to rise from Ksh2.23 trillion to Ksh2.935 trillion. That is an ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I know the increase in revenue collection has been averaging around Ksh300 billion. If we are unable to raise the revenue to Ksh700 billion, what will happen is either the programmes will not be implemented or if they are implemented, it will be at a cost. This means we are going to increase the budget deficit from the proposed Ksh635 billion to almost Ksh1 trillion. This is not far-fetched because from 30th September 2022 to 31st March 2023 - in a period of just six months - the Kenya Kwanza Government has borrowed Ksh689 billion compared to a ... view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: The talk we hear all the time, that Kenya Kwanza is fighting cartels and managing debts is hypocritical and theoretical. The actual fact is that Kenya Kwanza is borrowing more monies than what the former President Kenyatta borrowed. So, we are headed to a situation where this country is going to face financial distress. Hon. Speaker, I want to stop there but my concern is that this Budget is not likely to be financed from the revenue projections we have. Thank you. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I realised that the next Order on the Order Paper is the Committee of the whole House on the Finance Bill. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I was raising this because I know that once you call for the Committee of the whole House, the House is supposed to adjourn. I wanted to raise this point so that I get your ruling on this matter, so that when we move to the Committee of the whole House, the matters would have been dispensed with. Hon. Speaker, if you allow me. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this House has set traditions before where the Speaker has ruled that matters of constitutionality, legality, and procedure can be raised at any time in the course of debating a Bill. Article 259 speaks to the interpretation of the Constitution. It should be done in a manner that would promote its purposes, values, principles, advance the rule of law, and contribute to good governance. Our Standing Orders are a creation of our Constitution. view
• 20 Jun 2023 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view