John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I second this Procedural Motion. In our last HBC meeting, we agreed that since Tuesday, 12th December 2017 will be a public holiday, which will take away one sitting from us, we needed, at least, one extra sitting as defined in the Standing Orders; and that will be Thursday, 14th December 2017 in the morning to transact important business. What is this important business we have ahead of us? view
• 7 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: We have the EALA matter which we must settle before we go on recess. We have to vote for our representatives to the EALA. This is a process. Those of us who participated in the last voting for EALA members, which took place in the 10th Parliament, can remember how long it took. It is not an exercise that would take a short time. We felt it would probably take the whole morning or afternoon on Thursday. Our target is to go on recess having concluded placing our Members in the various committees of Parliament so that the matter of ... view
• 7 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I second. view
• 7 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to also support the Motion being debated this afternoon on the Report of Procedures and House Rules Committee. Hon. Speaker, I remember the sitting of the House Business Committee (HBC) actually initiated or originated the need of Procedures and House Rules Committee to sit urgently and review our Standing Orders to help and accommodate some of the actions that we are just about to take. Therefore, I want to agree with this Committee that these changes if adopted by this House take effect immediately. Hon. Speaker, I agree with the Committee’s ... view
• 7 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I have been a Member of this House for a while and I know if there is any difficult period of time in the life of leadership of the House, it is during this time. Hon. Speaker, I am sure you will witness it next week when emotions will run very high in this House. That is the time when Members will realise that they will not able to sit in committees that they preferred to sit in and hence a lot of criticism will fly around. However, I would just encourage the leadership of both sides of the House, ... view
• 7 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: about used to meet regularly. I remember there are some Members who did not really want to leave that committee although some also do not want to get to that committee. I am happy it has been re-baptised to something that cannot quickly be related to what it actually does. However, this terminology of “Lucrative Committees” sometimes surprises me. I just hope that our Members want to get to these committees to serve in the best interest of Kenyans and not with some other motives behind because you may be so disappointed when you get to these committees and realise ... view
• 7 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: we are balancing another interest. The interest we are balancing is that we do not want to have too large committees which become difficult to manage. As I conclude, with these reduced numbers of committees where Members would end up with not more than two committees, I hope that commitment to committees is going to be different. In the last Parliament it was a big shame when Accounting Officers appeared before them but they could not raise quorum and they had to go back. I hope it is not going to happen again. It is not only the watchdog committees ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I also stand here this afternoon to speak on behalf of the National Super Alliance (NASA) Coalition; the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party, which I chair; the people of Suba South, whom I represent in this Parliament; and on my own behalf as someone who, at a personal level, knew the Hon. Francis Nyenze. I want to express my deep condolences and shock at the untimely death of our brother, who passed on barely this morning. Hon. Nyenze was my predecessor. I have just succeeded him as the Leader of the Minority Party or ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I want to say without any fear of contradiction that there were admirable qualities that one would learn from Hon. Nyenze. One is that he was a great listener. Hon. Nyenze - even though he was our leader - could listen to you and if convinced, he would change his mind which is very rare with many of us in positions of leadership. He had wisdom and experience that many of us lacked. When you sat with him to discuss issues or matters pertaining to parliamentary procedures and issues of concern, whether it was Bills or any matter that was ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I want to wind up because I know many of my colleagues have something to say about Hon. Francis Nyenze. I want to wind up by saying that he played a critical role in NASA during its formation and more particularly when we were in the process of agreeing on a presidential candidate. He was in the committee which agreed to field one presidential candidate for the NASA. That shows and demonstrates the kind of confidence that our Coalition had in Hon. Francis Nyenze. I want to agree with Hon. Duale that he spoke his mind. At times, he could ... view