John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in short, I am pleading with this House that we demonstrate maturity as a House that approves appointments by not going personal but rather, expressing where we feel someone has not performed well. What does her work at SRC got to do with her work as an ambassador to China? I am not sending her to China because I want her to go far as the Leader of the Majority Party was saying. I do not want to be with the Leader of the Majority Party on that because I know nowadays with communication, she can still be ... view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: My final remark is on her job at SRC. She was just looking at the wage bill in this country. She has not helped the wage bill to go down. In fact, the wage bill has risen during her time. So, I do not even know what she was doing. She was just playing. One thing that I must give her – and probably that is what she is going to do very well in China – is PR. She has The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can ... view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: managed to convince this country that she is so competent because she could hold herself against MPs. She was just focussing on MPs and left the wage bill to rise. In counties, it is a shame. If you go to our counties, the increase in wage bill is astronomical. That happened under her watch. So, as she goes to China, let her go and play her PR very well there, but also serve our interests in terms of even handling the Chinese investment here because we have issues that she should do very well. view
• 8 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I support the Motion. That is the position of the Minority Party. view
• 2 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I hope you will add me one more minute. First, to me the petition is constitutional because it is asking if necessary amendments can be made to Articles 137 and 142 of the Constitution. So you cannot say it is unconstitutional. But it raises fundamental issues of procedure. Really, what should constitute a petition to this House? Hon. Speaker, as you rightly put it, Members are representatives of the people. Instead of bringing a petition of this nature, one would have expected Hon. Ouda to use his mandate and responsibility in the House to bring a constitutional amendment ... view
• 2 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Majority Party, talk about people who are scared of William Ruto and Raila Odinga and saying they are the two people who should be on the ballot. I want to say that ODM is not scared of anyone. We have not sent Hon. Ouda; he is acting on his own and representing his people. The people who will be on the ballot will be decided by political parties in 2022. It is not the time to talk about…. Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for that generosity. I am saying that political parties will be allocated time by the IEBC to nominate ... view
• 2 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: So I want to urge Duale to restrict and confine himself to his narrow Jubilee house and not to expand. I know there was a handshake, but it did not reach the level of dictating who is going to run where. It is our business. Do your business in Jubilee. Let us do ours in NASA and ODM. We will give you a very strong candidate who probably will lead this country. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. view
• 2 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I had asked the Serjeant-At-Arms office to look at my machine because even if I put the card, it is not working from yesterday. Something needs to be done. But it works in another one. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion on this Report on water resources and logging. First, I thank the committee for 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
• 2 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: doing the work that they did in terms of looking at this serious matter of national importance. We all know the importance of forests in this country and logging has been the enemy of our forest cover. Kenya is one of the countries with the lowest forest cover in the world. We have all along been talking about increasing our forest cover. This cannot work unless we crack on these illegal loggers and conserve our water resources. I know there are scientists in this House and they will tell you the connection between forests, rain, water and our livelihoods. Countries ... view
• 2 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to thank the Members for coming back to give us quorum. It is unfortunate that my Member, Hon. Simba Arati, raised the quorum. This kind of indiscipline will be taken up very seriously very soon. I had said in my earlier remarks that the issue of forests is very critical for our survival as a nation. It is not just us, environment is global. It is important for us to appreciate that. I want to add that much destruction that goes on in our forests has led to several deaths. Look ... view