John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3181 to 3190 of 7480.

• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to make my contribution to the Motion as amended. First of all, I appreciate the attempts to even further amend this Motion, but I am only urging my colleagues that this just being a Motion, we probably can now reserve any future further amendments to possible legislation, which I know hon. Mwaura or any other Member are likely to bring to this House. view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: First, allow me to thank hon. Mwaura as a true representative of the people he came to represent in this House. It is not the first time that I see him bring Motions and even use his membership of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to make sure that budgetary allocations go to areas that affect persons with disabilities. view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I will not. Hon. Lelelit is a good friend of mine and I know he raised it with a light touch. Actually, I did not walk out. I was just around, and you know where, probably, I could have visited--- view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: As I was making my contribution, I said that this is not the first time that I have seen Hon. Mwaura make very serious and deliberate proposals to help support the people that he represents. I want to tell everyone that, as a matter of fact, physical conditions are never permanent and, maybe, even those of us who do not have visible disabilities--- I say “visible” because you can hardly find someone who does not have any form of disability. I mean those of us who do not have visible disability that is not a permanent condition. Even if you ... view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Having said that, Kenyans in their wisdom, through Article 54 of the Constitution, made it deliberate that as we design educational institutions and other facilities, we need to make them accessible to persons with disabilities. That is a constitutional provision. Therefore, it is important that we recognize that in all places, whether in public transport or other facilities, there is reasonable access for those members with disabilities. It is only that we are very slow and reluctant in attempting to implement Chapter Four of the Constitution, which has very good provisions built in it in terms of enjoyment of rights. view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Motion is another confirmation of our slowness in terms of actualizing the provisions of the Constitution. How I wish that after passing this Motion, we will have hon. Mwaura move it further to legislation! I even suggest that even though we are talking about public places, public transport and public buildings, even for private buildings, this provision in the Constitution does not confine the enjoyment of those rights only to public facilities. We should go further even to demand that those who are putting up private buildings make provisions for facilities that would enhance access ... view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: It is important - whether it is a public or private institution - that the issue of disability is recognized. I am happy that hon. Sakaja has talked about the Committee on Equal Opportunity looking into this matter, but even without legislation and specific statutes, the provision of the Constitution alone needs to condition us to respect the wishes, desires and needs of the disabled. You will allow me to say that for Article 54, the State has a responsibility. In this case, the Government that is in power must have a progressive strategy to implement the principle of having ... view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: confines of accessing buildings, information and institutions, but also in totality as prescribed under Article 54 of the Constitution. That is what I would talk about. I want to also remind us that just a while ago, there was uproar about Kenya Airways mistreating a disabled person. That report has not been made public. What happened? view
• 17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: No! There was also a case of Kenya Airways. I do not know if there was another one of Fly 540. view