John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: I had started by saying that Chapter 12 is one of the most comprehensive chapters of our Constitution detailing the processes of budget making. I want to go further and mention that we have an omnibus law in the name of the Public Finance Management Act which collapsed all the previous statutes that were dealing with public finance management in this country. Looking at this law and taking the sections that deal with the budget-making process, it is exhaustive, very simple and easy to understand. Today, we are dealing with a situation that could have been avoided easily if we ... view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: I had started by saying that Chapter 12 is one of the most comprehensive chapters of our Constitution detailing the processes of budget making. I want to go further and mention that we have an omnibus law in the name of the Public Finance Management Act which collapsed all the previous statutes that were dealing with public finance management in this country. Looking at this law and taking the sections that deal with the budget-making process, it is exhaustive, very simple and easy to understand. Today, we are dealing with a situation that could have been avoided easily if we ... view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: Otherwise, we will be debating and disagreeing to the extent that at one point, we may end up losing the Division of Revenue Bill. What then will happen to our country? How then will we get resources for the counties? How will we even have a legal framework or authority to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: Otherwise, we will be debating and disagreeing to the extent that at one point, we may end up losing the Division of Revenue Bill. What then will happen to our country? How then will we get resources for the counties? How will we even have a legal framework or authority to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: spend on national Government functions? That is my position that this country will have to decide. I have heard my colleagues speak a lot about county governments and resources envelope that they get. I also want to share the same concerns that my colleagues have. My colleagues have a lot of concerns whether the resources that we allocate to the counties deliver services for which we allocate them. I will also say that that is not the case. We have a lot of wastage. A lot of resources are also spent properly. That, we must also say because if you ... view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: spend on national Government functions? That is my position that this country will have to decide. I have heard my colleagues speak a lot about county governments and resources envelope that they get. I also want to share the same concerns that my colleagues have. My colleagues have a lot of concerns whether the resources that we allocate to the counties deliver services for which we allocate them. I will also say that that is not the case. We have a lot of wastage. A lot of resources are also spent properly. That, we must also say because if you ... view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: Even as we castigate the county governments, we must be alive to the fact that corruption is a cancer in this country. It eats across at the national and county levels. We even elect very many thieves in this country. By the way, even our electoral process has no way of identifying these thieves because we put every Dick, Tom and Harry who wants to run for an office to the electorate to decide. The electorate has no capacity to determine who these thieves are and deal with them accordingly. view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: Even as we castigate the county governments, we must be alive to the fact that corruption is a cancer in this country. It eats across at the national and county levels. We even elect very many thieves in this country. By the way, even our electoral process has no way of identifying these thieves because we put every Dick, Tom and Harry who wants to run for an office to the electorate to decide. The electorate has no capacity to determine who these thieves are and deal with them accordingly. view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, with those many remarks, let us compromise on this Bill. Even if it is a matter of comprising with the Senate, let us do so, so that we can have it passed this time without a hitch. view
• 24 May 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, with those many remarks, let us compromise on this Bill. Even if it is a matter of comprising with the Senate, let us do so, so that we can have it passed this time without a hitch. view