John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Estimates. We expect the Cabinet Secretary to appear on Thursday next week before Parliament and the people of Kenya to read the Budget highlights and revenue raising measures. Before that is done, we thought it would be decent if we agreed on the Expenditure Estimates because, if the Government has to spell out how to raise money, they must raise money to finance something. You cannot expect the CS to tell us that we will be raising Kshs2.5 trillion yet Parliament has not decided the amount of expenditure that should be incurred for the next financial year. Basically, that is ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I can make my contribution now. I wish to take this opportunity to contribute to the Budget Estimates for 2018/2019 Financial Year. As a Parliament, we have an oversight role on the Government in ensuring that the Government delivers on its mandate to the people. Allow me to point some few key issues in the Budget of 2018/2019 Financial Year, bearing in mind that this is the Budget where the Government has a very ambitious plan of implementing measures that would help us actualise the now famously referred to as the Big Four Agenda. I want to start ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: documents that have been submitted by the Cabinet Secretary responsible for Finance indicates that the compliance to the various statutes has not been fully achieved though some commendable efforts have been made by the National Treasury. The PFM Act requires that the ceilings which we approved when we were processing the Budget Policy Statements are adhered to and respected. There is the reason the BPS is prepared in advance before the Budget Estimates are prepared. view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: This is supposed to guide the budget making process. The Executive needs to be cautious when preparing the Budget Estimates. It needs to be synchronised with the Budget Policy Statement. But when you look at the Budget Estimates and compare with what this House passed in the BPS, it is very clear that there are very many areas of variance and there is non- compliance. However, the law requires that when there is a variance or the Estimates differ from the BPS, the National Treasury should submit a memorandum which would explain the reason those deviations became necessary. However, for ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: are likely to persist, leading to widening of the deficit if expenditure is not well controlled. I cannot overemphasise this point. If we do not control the expenditure pressures that we experience, if we do not contain the hunger by which MDAs are continuously increasing their expenditure requirements, this country will not cope in terms of financing the Budget. The net effect is that the country will continue to borrow money. This borrowing will come from either domestic sources or external sources. Of course, when the borrowing comes from domestic sources, there is the attendant risk of raising the interest ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will rush to finish the two points that I wanted to put across. I wanted to tell this House that contrary to what came from the Treasury, we have decided, and the Treasury was very reluctant, to allocate each constituency Kshs30 million for the maintenance of our roads, because there are no roads anywhere in the country. So, we cannot even say that we are going to look for those constituencies which have problems. All constituencies have problems with roads. We need to support this allocation. Finally, when the Chairman was presenting the Budget, he ... view
• 5 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to agree by seconding this Motion on limitation of debate on the Annual Estimates and Committee of Supply. I want to start by saying that the budget-making process is the single most important responsibility of Members of Parliament or any legislative body. That is why the people of Kenya decided that there will be no taxation without representation. They have elected their representatives, 290, 47 plus 12 specially nominated representatives to be speaking on their behalf and represent them in terms of Budget scrutiny. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 5 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to agree by seconding this Motion on limitation of debate on the Annual Estimates and Committee of Supply. I want to start by saying that the budget-making process is the single most important responsibility of Members of Parliament or any legislative body. That is why the people of Kenya decided that there will be no taxation without representation. They have elected their representatives, 290, 47 plus 12 specially nominated representatives to be speaking on their behalf and represent them in terms of Budget scrutiny. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 5 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: I want to put some clarity on what the Leader of the Majority Party has said regarding the changes that took place in terms of the budget-making process from what happened previously – from the 10th Parliament going back, what we saw in the 11th Parliament, and now where we have reached. The reason we have changed the system is because, before the new Constitution, the budget-making process was majorly a function of the Executive. Parliament’s role was limited, more or less to what one would call “a rubber stamping responsibility”. We were not expected to make major changes in ... view
• 5 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: I want to put some clarity on what the Leader of the Majority Party has said regarding the changes that took place in terms of the budget-making process from what happened previously – from the 10th Parliament going back, what we saw in the 11th Parliament, and now where we have reached. The reason we have changed the system is because, before the new Constitution, the budget-making process was majorly a function of the Executive. Parliament’s role was limited, more or less to what one would call “a rubber stamping responsibility”. We were not expected to make major changes in ... view