John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I respect your ruling but I am worried because Kenya is a multi-party democracy. Your ruling has basically handed over the budget process to the Jubilee side of this House. view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: At times, I would urge my colleagues that if they have a problem with say Hon. Mbadi, I am ready to leave but have CORD’s voice in the budget-making process. I request that the matter is re-looked into because the budget-making process is such an important exercise that cannot be left to one side of the House. view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Report on the audit of the Judiciary. My colleagues have spoken about this Report. I want to put it on record that I attended over 90 per cent of the meetings during which witnesses appeared and testified on this case. view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I want to start by indicting Parliament. This debate has come at a time when we have just defeated the Motion on the reconstitution of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Parliament needs to take the budget-making process seriously. If you look at the areas where we have had high level suspicion of corruption or actual corruption, you will realise the Government agencies, ministries and departments which received unusually large budgetary allocation are the culprits. I will give examples of the National Youth Service (NYS), the Judiciary and the Ministry of Health, which I know my Committee is on. I do ... view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: When you give such huge sums of money to an institution without, first, ascertaining that it has set up structures and institutions with the capacity to manage those resources, you expose 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
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: those resources to corruption. Because I do not have much time to go into the details of this Report, I want to say that what we witnessed is a case of open theft of public funds. There is no two way about it. I will tell you for a fact that the officers who were charged with the responsibility of managing public funds at the Judiciary, led by the Chief Registrar, were on a mission to loot the resources from public coffers and divert them to unknown use. Why do I say so? Right from the constitution of the tender ... view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Someone just sits somewhere and decides that now I need more and probably your guess is as good as mine why this would happen. In Rahimtulla, for example, some second hand furniture which was bought from PricewaterHouseCoopers (PwC) was bought through direct procurement. This is something that is not acceptable. In fact, direct procurement has a provision but with clearly defined parameters. The reasons which would result into direct procurement are spelt out if that is the only supplier for those items. Can you tell me that there can only be one supplier of furniture and it is second-hand? As ... view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to support these amendments. Being a Member of the Committee, I know it could cause some concerns why I am doing so. I am going to explain shortly and briefly. It should be observed that the PAC was reconstituted. I appreciate the work that has been done by the Committee, especially the leadership of the Committee. The Chair and the Vice-Chair who were not present when a lot of debate on this matter went on have done a commendable job in moving and seconding the Report. view
• 11 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: The reason I want to support these amendments is as follows: I had some difficulties with sections of the Report. I agree that members of the JSC under part (ii) should take personal responsibility for allowances paid to them. Actually, they can only share that with the accounting officer. For example, if today, I decide to attend a meeting that is not procedurally convened, we will not come to the Speaker to ask you to take personal responsibility. It is the member who has benefited from the irregular payments who is supposed to pay and/or the accounting officer. The accounting ... view