John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The other thing is about planning by the Government. For the first time in the history of this country, in two consecutive years, we are going to have two Supplementary Budgets. That is a clear reflection of a Government that is not committed to proper planning. On planning, by the end of the last financial year in June, we had over 1,000 projects running, which cost about Kshs3 billion which can be translated to the current cost of about Kshs4.5 billion. Are we biting more than we can chew? As a country--- view
• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to support the deletion of this clause for two reasons. We made a decision to have counties answerable in managing public land and that will be possible if you have the county land boards committees in place. I want to disagree with the Chairman who has said that the fact that the county assemblies approve the membership of the board gives them power to control them. That is not true. The law mandates the NLC to liaise with the county governments in appointing the boards. The responsibility of the county assemblies is the same ... view
• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: I am well guided. The Committee has not helped us by clearly defining how the National Land Commission (NLC) would have its presence in the counties. view
• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I support the amendment. view
• 5 May 2016 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. Why? I thought the Committee was supposed to help us bring clarity to the various land laws we have. They have not done that. If you look at the Constitution, it is clear that under Article 67(2)(b), the function of the NLC is to recommend. The words to note there are “to recommend” and not “to make” or “to provide” a national land policy to the national Government. That can be the CS. When you give the CS the functions of the NLC and say that he is supposed to provide policy direction regarding all classes ... view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: No, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Actually, I have the Constitution in front of me. I thought we need to look at Article 68 of the Constitution and, maybe, have Hon. Mlolwa base his argument on what we have read. This Article talks about the minimum acreage and maximum land holding. That is a big thing under that Article: Reviewing the manner in which land may be converted from one category to another and to regulate the protection of matrimonial property and to protect, conserve and provide access to all public land. I am just highlighting what is in that Article. ... view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: I have difficulties supporting this amendment. First, knowing Kenya as it is, if you give so many days to people who own land or proprietors an opportunity for changes to be made, they will go to court and nothing will happen. They will always talk and block some amendments for changes to be made. So, I do not agree that this is something desirable. Secondly, the Chair was a bit economical as he has only explained part of his amendments. However, there is part “d” that gives the Cabinet Secretary (CS) power to make regulations to prescribe the guidelines that ... view
• 4 May 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view