John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Leader of the Majority Party did not really understand what Hon. Shakeel raised. The point here is that there are arrears of the NGCDF that have not been released to the Board by the National Treasury. Therefore, what the Board is doing is using the current allocation or releases to pay arrears that have been accumulated over the years. In a sense, it is like you are digging a hole to fill another one and you will create even a bigger one. view
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I wanted to correct Hon. Shabbir that we do not even need a Supplementary Budget. If you look at the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act, you will find that it is clear that any money put aside to a fund does not lapse with the end of the financial year. So, what the National Treasury needs to do is to give the NGCDF Board the arrears to pay those constituencies that have not received the money. My constituency has actually received the entire allocation for 2015/2016, but I got what Hon. Shakeel is saying that the National Treasury ... view
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also join my colleagues in expressing my frustrations regarding the way good initiatives and intentions are abused in this country. Sometimes I ask myself whether when we come up with initiatives to help the youth, women and other vulnerable members of our society to improve their economic wellbeing, we lose focus during the implementation stage of such initiatives. Is it because we rush to create these funds? What makes these funds so vulnerable to misappropriation? The answer lies in our preparation, including the legislations that we come up with and the financial management systems ... view
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I have looked at the Report of the PIC. I congratulate the Committee, which is led by Hon. Keynan. They did a good job in unearthing this matter. What is coming out clearly is that Parliament appropriated money. A decision was made primarily by two individuals – Ms. Catherine Nambuye and Mr. Bruce Odhiambo – to withdraw money that was to be lent to our youths. The money was transferred to a fixed deposit account. The duo are the only people who can tell us why they put Kshs400 million into a fixed deposit account. Mr. Bruce Odhiambo and Ms. ... view
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: When deposit matured and the money became available for use, they decided to pay somebody believed to be a consultant, but who is basically an individual called Mukuria Ngamau. The gentleman went ahead to spent the taxpayers’ money at will. He bought an apartment in Lavington for Kshs48.5 million. People will think that he is a very hardworking individual but the truth is that he is living nice in Lavington on the sweat of the Kenyan taxpayer. He is living on money which was supposed to be lent to the youth of this country to help them get out of ... view
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is not an isolated case. We have so many similar cases at the affirmative action funds that we have set up. I know that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) 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
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: is still investigating this matter. I am sure that their report will come to this House. I do not want to discuss the report before it is brought to the Floor of the House. What is happening at the National Youth Service (NYS) is worse than what happened at the YEDF. The commercial banks have joined this conspiracy. Theft of public funds in this country happens with the collusion of commercial banks. This is shown by the rate at which people withdraw cash. A big amount of money gets into an account today and on the following day it is ... view
• 23 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Anti-Money Laundering Bill that we passed here a few years back is not helping. I want to ask the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to be more punitive to commercial banks that engage in such malpractices. Some of them are notorious and known. If you want to steal money, you open accounts in some specific banks in this country. In this case, Chase Bank played a clear role in aiding and abetting corruption. This Ministry was headed by Ms. Ann Waiguru. It is interesting that the former CS presided over looting of funds from the NYS, the YEDF and ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, first of all, you know that these positions that people hold are not permanent. Let us look at this amendment on the basis of merit. If we add the position of Secretary to the Board, is it bringing an issue or is there anything that it creates that is not good for the organisation? I thought the amendment was that the Director-General of the Authority shall be an ex-officio member and Secretary to the Board. That is harmless in my view. However, if there is an issue that we feel needs to be corrected in that ... view