John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I second. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak just immediately after my teacher, from those days, has spoken. Let me take this opportunity to first send my condolences to the families, relatives and friends of those Kenyans who lost their lives in a very sad situation which happened in Wajir County. From Homa Bay County, we lost Seth and Caroline Odada on this particular day and their families are still mourning. They have not been buried yet. This is a very unfortunate situation which speaks volumes about the level of insecurity in this country. I ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: What is more saddening is that recently, and I think many of us must have read in newspapers, terrorists had infiltrated Nairobi. For almost over a week, one of them was residing right in the middle of the city centre. Whatever they were assembling could have destroyed tall buildings in this country. That gives us a lot of fear. Again, if we show and demonstrate that we fear the terrorists, then, I think they will not stop at anything. Therefore, as a country, we need to ask ourselves the steps we need to take against terrorists. The wall which was ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: As a matter of fact, I want to remind my good friend here, and he knows it, that in my constituency, you cannot take the Kisii community for granted. If they give their votes to your opponent, you are in big trouble. As a matter of fact, in the last election, I got over 94 per cent in the three polling stations which are dominated by members of the Kisii Community. If you do not want us to talk about Matiang’i then tell him to quit public office. The moment he holds a public office, we have to play oversight ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, initially I did not want to comment on this matter but when I heard an Hon. Member shouting that this matter is a local issue, I got concerned. There may be need for us to educate every Hon. Members on what is a national issue and what is a local issue. It really baffles me when someone talks about forest cover in this country as being a local issue when we know very well that this country is facing an acute drought which is even The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: affecting the performance of our economy because we cannot protect our forests. My advice to the committee is that it should not just restrict itself to this particular forest which is very important. In fact, Lake Victoria, which is our mainstay economically, has a lot of issues because of the effects on Mt. Kenya Forest, Aberdare Forest, the Mau Forest and all the other forests in this country. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: In future, we should create a specific committee that will look at matters environment. If we do not take the environment as a serious matter of national importance, then the future generation in this country and the rest of the region will suffer. We are bound to lose lives because of destroying our forest. Hon. Speaker, those of us who are old enough can all agree that this is probably the first year in the history of this country that we have not had meaningful rainfall from September. Now we are approaching March and we have no rain. I call ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I was really struggling to see why we have allowed this Motion to be transacted. Probably I missed something. The Procedural Motion was not in the Order Paper. I am also trying to look for those Motions where the Standing Orders allow us to debate without giving notice and I cannot see. I am really at a loss. view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I think you have said it, but I just wanted to add that if a committee generates a Bill, then certainly the chair of that committee would introduce the Bill to the House and then take responsibility. But when Bills come from the Executive, it is upon the Executive to make a determination as to whether they will use the Leader of the Majority Party. By the way, I think it is just clear that the Bill should come through the Leader of the Majority Party and if he decides that he wants to delegate, he ... view
• 20 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I think Hon. Kangogo needs to accept that a lot of powers go into this Office of Leader of the Majority Party and, probably, Leader of the Minority Party. The Leader of the Majority Party can be magnanimous to share this responsibility with the lieutenants, because what I see is a case where the soldiers have very little to do and they see that the general is overworking. So I want to urge my friend to be sharing some of these responsibilities with his team. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view