John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: majority, he followed and supported our Coalition to the end up to and including the general election on 8th August 2017. I want to keep on praying for the family because I know I come from a denomination that does not believe that once someone has passed on, there is something that you can say which can change the mind of God to either take him to heaven or hell. My denomination which is the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) believes that your relationship with God when you are alive is what determines your destiny once you die. What I would ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I want to end there lest I turn into a preacher. I want to end there by saying that we are all united at this point in time when we are mourning Hon. Francis Nyenze. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. Before I support the Motion, allow me to take one minute and make a correction of what I have seen on the front page of the Daily Nation today regarding why this House is asking the Procedure and House Rules Committee to increase the membership of committees from 17 to 19. The newspapers or at least the Daily Nation got it wrong. I want to say that we support the freedom of the media. I do not want to attack the Daily Nation. Probably, we did not ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I want to support this Motion which was moved by the Member for Ainabkoi. I have realised that the Member for Ainabkoi, Hon. William Chepkut, is fitting in the shoes of his predecessor very well. I remember Hon. Chepkong’a was a very vibrant legislator in this House. When we were sitting in the House Business Committee (HBC) yesterday, I was impressed to see that this is the Member who has proposed more Motions than any other Member in this House. I want to start by saying kudos to Hon. William. You have started on the right footing, and your constituents ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: why we are killing ourselves and future generations. When you destroy the environment and the forest cover, you are definitely creating a danger to future generations of this country. The future generation will hold us accountable and responsible. We may not be there, but they will blame us. None of us wants to see his descendants suffering because of some of the mistakes that we make. view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: I support fully that one of the steps that we need to take is to encourage our institutions to plant trees. There is no better starting point than our learning institutions. We can start by encouraging our learning institutions and even make it compulsory for every school to have a certain minimum number of trees from primary and secondary schools, technical training institutes, colleges, universities and all other learning institutions. We need to make it a policy in our public institutions, starting with Parliament. We need to find a way of ensuring that there is some forest cover in Parliament. ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: We can also encourage households to plant trees. I do not know whether it is necessary to make it compulsory because we want Kenyans to enjoy their freedom. I do not want to see the old style where chiefs come to our homes and start caning people and arresting them for not planting trees. It should be inculcated. It should be a principle. It should be something that we embrace willingly as a country and society that we have to plant trees in our homes. In fact, it is even decent when you have tree cover in your home. The ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: The problem is not about planting of trees, but protecting our forests. I was discussing with my friends here and we tend to agree that a lot of environment conservation is a devolved function. However, if you do it in places like schools, that is still the national Government function. The gazetted forests in this country are a national Government function. We have enough gazetted forests in this country. We are failing in planting trees in those forests and protecting them. In fact, I want to encourage the committee which will look into this matter to go a step further ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my thinking especially for the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, which we are going to form next week, is that they should move a step forward with this Motion and find out what the members of staff who are employed to protect our forests are doing. If we do not have enough staff, we need to get more and they should live in the forests to protect them. We should have clear demarcation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in National Assembly: Gwasi Hills, which I talked about is 4200 hectares in size. The boundary demarcation is invisible. At times, the forest department extends its boundaries by moving the beacons and sometimes they reduce their boundaries by moving the beacons again. So, our people do not know the boundaries of the forest. So, they cannot be blamed when they encroach into the forest. view