John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3361 to 3370 of 7480.

• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to urge for caution in this House. There is a very dangerous trend setting in. This House is not debating any Motion or Bill. The Moment it is moved, it is seconded and then just two members contribute or even none and then the Mover is called upon to reply. Our fundamental responsibility is to appropriate funds. That is why the people of Kenya voted for us. This culture of asking for the Mover to reply when we are dealing with the Supplementary Budget is not good. Remember the Golden Berg was paid ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. This is the full disclosure. The full disclosure is that this extra amount of money that is being approved to be spent, if you ask me or if you ask any Member of that Committee, I would guarantee you no one knows how much has been spent and how much will be spent between today and Tuesday. That is the full disclosure. If you ask the National Treasury, they will tell you that we have spent some money and they will spend some but as to the ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Let me take this House to the Kshs130 billion that is being provided for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). The first question we asked is why there is need and necessity to put this money in the Budget a few days to the end of the financial year. Why can the National Treasury not defer this to the next financial year? I can tell you that there was no satisfactory answer to that question. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I want to add something to that. What I want to add regards what Hon. Dalmas Otieno said. Hon. Deputy Speaker, there is a bit of high level consultation. The Leader of the Majority has arrived. I want to announce the arrival of the Leader of the Majority Party so that we can have peace. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: As a House, we are being asked to spend more than what the Constitution provides. We are being asked to allow, approve or authorise the Executive to spend 15 per cent more than what was appropriated in the financial year. That is unconstitutional, but the Constitution has a rider that you can spend up to beyond 10 per cent under special circumstances and with the approval of Parliament. When Treasury appeared before us, they insisted that the money meant for the SGR, which is a loan from the Chinese Government, is not supposed to be included under that requirement of ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I was raising a fundamental issue. The reasoning of the Treasury when we asked them why they were going beyond 10 per cent, they initially insisted that the money that is being borrowed externally should not form part of the 10 per cent provision. I reminded them that the provision of Article 223(5) talks about money appropriated. Parliament appropriates money including loans; external financing. Therefore, that is when this argument of special circumstances came about. If the Kshs130 billion for the SGR is a special circumstance, we can understand that. If the loan had been negotiated with ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: loans and domestic borrowing. The net effect is that you are going to affect and cause disturbance in the entire financial sector. view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, first of all, I understand the Member for Kipipiri is very new in this House. There is no time I have mentioned that I am opposing the Report. That does not mean I cannot criticize it. In fact, I am saying exactly what I said in the Committee. If I am wrong, the Chairperson will confirm. I am the one who even told the Cabinet Secretary that the external loan must be considered within the 10 per cent. I even repeated that you can only ask Parliament to spend under special circumstances and you must seek authority ... view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, Hon. Cecily Mbarire does not sit in that Committee. How does she know what I am saying? view
• 25 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the importance of listening cannot be over- emphasized. Hon. Mbarire does not listen. I said that we had already provided for that Kshs2 billion. It is this reckless Jubilee Government which was trying to re-allocate it. Today, because they went to Mumias, they were removing the money that we had already approved. The Kshs2 billion was there in the Budget. So, this reckless and confused Jubilee Administration was trying to re-allocate the money, but when they went to Mumias, now they saw the need and they were bringing it. We are supporting the bailing out of Mumias ... view