John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Assemblies (MCAs). If you calculate, you will realise that every month it costs this country Kshs1.2 million on average to sustain one MCA. I do not think this country can afford such kind of expenditure. We need to start asking ourselves seriously about the number of MCAs we have in this country. It is high time we reduced the number of MCAs. That is something that needs to be considered seriously. That should not give excuse to those who want to marginalise women who have been marginalised over the years. We can still get gender parity with a reduced number ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First of all, I want to thank you for allowing us to ventilate on this matter and allow the Chair to make an elaborate and well-informed ruling. I would urge that even as you make your ruling, I am sure and I have confidence in our legal department that they will do research and make comparisons with other jurisdictions where we have a presidential system of government to exactly determine what the veto power by the presidency means. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I want to agree with Hon. Duale that this particular provision is not new in this Constitution. It was uplifted from the old Constitution. Even as I say that, I agree that we have three levels of Government. I wish Hon. Duale, the Leader of the Majority Party, could listen to me on this. I want to remind Hon. Duale that the three arms of Government are given powers to check each other but the power of checking is also checked. Hon. Duale spoke about the Judiciary making pronouncements on legislation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: What the Judiciary does is that it can express an opinion saying that a matter that has been legislated on is unconstitutional and should not be used, but I have never seen where the Judiciary has gone ahead to recommend how the law should look like. The Judiciary cannot say that this provision is wrong that it should read one, two and three. That is a power that is vested in Parliament. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: As we seek for the interpretation of reservations and reconsiderations because these words should be defined, I also want the word as used in this article “noting” to be defined. The article he refers to says that within 14 days the President shall refer the Bill back to Parliament for reconsideration by Parliament noting any reservation. The word “noting” also needs to be defined. Does “noting” mean the President comes up with recommendations on how the Bill should look like or he notes what he feels should be corrected? view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: When you go down to Sub-clause 2, it says if the President refers a Bill back for reconsideration, which reconsideration will be defined, Parliament may, following the appropriate procedures under this part, reconsider. That reconsideration should be defined. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also request that this appropriate procedure should also be defined. In my understanding, the President could express his reservations to the National Assembly or the Senate, whichever the source of the Bill, citing what he feels should be done differently. But he should not go ahead and recommend how the Bill should look like. That is legislative authority vested in Parliament. Since this matter has been canvassed a lot, if the intention was to have the President do a Bill or fresh provisions in the Bill, how have you accommodated the requirement that any legislation must ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of Information. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I wanted to inform Hon. Jakoyo that when a report or information is within Parliament, you are not under any obligation to substantiate. On 26th March, 2015, the President brought here a list of those suspected to be corrupt. In that list, there is a provision that specifically mentions that Engineer Kamau, through a firm associated with him, was awarded fraudulently a contract for the SGR. In that case, the President is telling us that the SGR is a cash cow where people are being awarded contracts contrary to the law. Therefore, his Cabinet Secretary ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: However, I do not expect the Leader of the Majority Party to get it wrong because he even said that one of the Jubilee Government’s pet thing is corruption. view