John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: appropriate to allow the court to deal with it. If they say the case filed is weak, fine, it will come back to this House and we will deal with it at that time. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: I do not think Hon. Dan Maanzo has the capacity to make that determination. I respect him as a lawyer, but I find him a bit condescending to his fellow lawyers who have filed this matter in court when he says that according to him, he has already made a determination that this matter will be thrown out. That is why I think the Committee was right by making this recommendation that at this point the matter could be sub judice . You can just see it already playing by the contribution from my colleague, Hon. Dan Maanzo. The Mover ... view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: We have a problem in this House concerning this matter. Even debating the substantive Motion will be a problem for us. How far are we supposed to go, in terms of discussing the merits and demerits of whether we should vet or not vet an appointee or someone who has already been elected by judges? That to me is very tricky. Therefore, I want to plead with this House that this amendment is not good and is not helping the court, let us go by the findings of the Committee. They took a lot of time looking into this matter ... view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am contributing to the main Motion. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: We are expected to approve these two recommendations this afternoon. The Report has two recommendations. The first one is in light of the conservatory orders. The High Court prohibits the National Assembly from vetting Justice Warsame for appointment as a member of the Judicial Service Commission. The Committee is not in a position to vet him and submit a report. Generally, the Committee is telling us to approve that they were unable to vet Justice Warsame. I do not have a problem with that. This is something we can support. I said very clearly that it will be very difficult ... view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: My colleagues have talked about the independence of this House. I am one of the people who are very passionate about protecting the independence and integrity of this House. At the same time, the Constitution was drafted in a way to separate powers. One House should not use its powers to override the rights of other Kenyans. Every Kenyan is at liberty to go to court or to petition Parliament. We have been petitioned a number of times on functions of other arms of Government. There is nothing wrong with a Kenyan petitioning the courts on the legality or constitutionality ... view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: The Executive has the responsibility of applying the law. Parliament makes laws. Implementation is left to the Executive. The Judiciary interprets the law. We must admit that the matter of whether we should vet people who have been elected by various bodies to the JSC is a weighty matter. Opinion is divided. In fact, we were even sharing with a friend of mine here. According to Article 171 of the Constitution, there are other members of the JSC. There is the Chief Justice, a Supreme Court Judge elected by the Judges of the Supreme Court, and the Court of Appeal ... view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: vetted by Parliament. Some were vetted during the 10th Parliament. The representatives who came later were not vetted. Are we saying that by vetting Justice Warsame, we will also call upon the people sitting in that Commission, who were elected by the Supreme Court Judges, the High Court Judges, the Magistrate Courts, and the two advocates comprising of one man and one woman? All these people are sitting in that Commission illegally. That is what we will be saying by making a decision this afternoon or any other day to vet Justice Warsame. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Many have argued about Articles 171, 248 and 250 of the Constitution. There are people who believe that Article 250 of the Constitution does apply to the JSC. If you allow me, let me refer to the Article quickly. There is a requirement that has been read out here in Article 250(2). It says- “The chairperson and each member of a commission, and the holder of an independent office, shall be – (a) identified and recommended for appointment in a manner prescribed by national legislation; view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: (b) approved by the National Assembly; and, view