John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: I can hear the Leader of the Majority Party saying they want more but they have bad intentions. They want to make bad laws in this country without absolute numbers. I am still very comfortable where I am. Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah said I may be the Leader of the Official Opposition. I want to become the President of this country and not the Leader of the Official Opposition. I do not want to become the Leader of the Official Opposition because I was the Leader of the Minority Party and it was enough for me. I want to move up ... view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. With those many remarks, I oppose the Motion. view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to give my remarks and comments to what in my view is a proposal from the President. I do not want to imagine that this is the beginning of a process of initiating constitutional changes from him. First, we have heard very many Members in this House castigating what Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance has been doing in terms of the people barazas. There is no rule in this country that says that you cannot have courts of public opinion when speaking to the people of Kenya. Whether the office of the official ... view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: In my view, we need to have a holistic review of the Constitution. The other day when we were in Mombasa, a clerk-assistant from Canada gave us an example of a compelling political process they have in their country. Political parties are made to select and put aside specific constituencies for women. That way, the two-thirds gender rule is achieved. This is one of the ways we should be considering to resolve this issue. We have had excellent examples of women who have come to Parliament through the affirmative action being elected. Others have even been elected as governors, for ... view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, on the issue of the leader of the opposition, again, I will refer you to the BBI. The spirit behind the BBI was that as a country, we should never have a situation where the winner-takes-it-all. The BBI not only advocated for the office of leader of the opposition, but also budgeted for a shadow cabinet. Ideally, what the President is proposing right now, the courts already ruled that these initiatives cannot come from the President, which I do not agree with. However, we respect the decisions of the court. This is a matter that should be ... view
• 15 Feb 2023 in National Assembly: committees do is to question cabinet secretaries who appear before them. If we start bringing cabinet secretaries here, committees will become irrelevant. The BBI proposal was that 50 per cent of our cabinet secretaries ought to be Members of Parliament. Through this process, it would be much easier for us to question cabinet secretaries and for them to be held accountable. The other process the President is proposing is, in my view, a back door and a shortcut towards bringing back the BBI to Parliament. That should not be the case. On the Senate Oversight Fund, I agree with my ... view
• 23 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion by Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi. This country has a problem with land. That became evident after the 2007 general election. That is why one of the most critical issues that were discussed at that time was land use. In the Constitution, we came up with a full chapter on land and environment. It was the understanding then that once we promulgated the Constitution of Kenya 2010, an Act of Parliament on better land use would be enacted, followed by regulations which would help in ... view
• 23 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: It is my prayer that the new Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Housing and Urban Development will think outside the box and help. We do not want to hear people threatening and scaring communities that there is a Motion that has been passed in Parliament where you can only own a maximum of 10 acres of land. No one is saying that. We do not need a uniform maximum acreage of land. There are places like in Maasai land, where someone can even have 50 or 100 acres of land because its economic use requires that vast piece of land. There ... view
• 23 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I second this Motion by saying that Kenyans are very unique. They will always kill a very good thing that they started themselves. We have seen and I have seen it in Parliament, many countries, parliaments and treasuries across the continent coming to Kenya to learn how the CDF works. Many countries have now adopted the CDF concept and model and yet, Kenyans are very busy killing it. This is something which is so unique, so Kenyan, and the only thing that I would say The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 23 Nov 2022 in National Assembly: has succeeded in this country for years without much problems. Today we are discussing that we need to anchor NG-CDF in the Constitution. First, I want to apologise to Kenyans that I was in the 10th Parliament where we passed the 2010 Constitution. We were in that Parliament with you Hon. Temporary Speaker, but we did not see it fit to entrench CDF into our Constitution. How I wish that we saw this coming and did it then. view