John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Let me start by saying that this Bill is long overdue. As a country, we must agree that the biggest challenge we face is unemployment. The youth are highly affected by unemployment in this country. Youth unemployment is not even a Kenyan issue. It is a global issue. It is an issue that needs to be addressed in a very affirmative manner so as to protect ourselves as a society. If we do not care and do not take interest in the welfare of the youth, then we stand the risk of losing the society and losing our country. The ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: as has been read by Hon. Chris Wamalwa, is very clear that we were required by the supreme law of the land to come up with legislative mechanisms to actualize Articles 54, 55 and 56 of the Constitution. That is exactly what we are doing and so there is nothing unconstitutional. I have looked at the Bill and it does not discriminate in any way. This Bill is helping the society as a whole. It is not just targeting the youth. I agree with the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare when they recommend that we should even make ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: However, there are a few things that can be addressed and need to be looked at. We probably could be giving the Cabinet Secretary too many powers, but we need to look at it through amendments to see if you can regulate the powers of the Cabinet Secretary. There is also a clause that I am a bit uncomfortable with and that is Clause 25(f). Clause 25 says, if I can quickly go there, the Authority shall keep and maintain an up-to-date register of all youth seeking employment. One of the requirements is that that register should contain ethnicity and ... view
• 16 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank you for allowing the Budget and Appropriations Committee, through the Chairman, to bring clarity to the decision that the House made last week. I appreciate this because it has been said by Kenyans and we work on behalf of the people of Kenya. Therefore, if there are genuine questions, they need to be responded to. I know that there are people who have raised concerns with what we did purely out of malice. There could be genuine cases of Kenyans who did not understand what the Budget and Appropriations Committee did, which Parliament approved. ... view
• 16 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: is saying that this House is stifling the operations of the Judiciary is being economical with the truth. The truth is that that Kshs1 billion came from the Development Vote of the Judiciary. The Judiciary has not complained about this money. Those who are outside the Judiciary are speaking louder than the Judiciary itself, especially the Senate. They should be transparent and tell Kenyans that they are hurt by the fact that Kshs1 billion has been re-allocated from their Vote to somewhere else. Regarding the Senate, the mistake was not reallocating this money from the Senate to devolved units of ... view
• 16 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Why should we give them a salary on top of what they are earning and they are even getting mileage? What are they collecting mileage for every week if we have to give them more money to go to their counties? You give me mileage to go to Suba. Senators get mileage to go to their counties, for example my Senator, to oversee, do whatever they want and meet their people. He again wants a salary and Kshs1.6 million. He is cheating Kenyans out there that that money is meant for overseeing. Overseeing what? Hon. Speaker, let us not do ... view
• 16 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving this opportunity to also support the Report of PIC on restructuring of KPRL. First of all, I must say that I am a bit disappointed that even up to late in the day like today, we are still talking about privatisation and modernization of KPRL. Those of us, who have been in this House for some time now, have spoken to this issue a number of times. We have expressed the fear that we are likely to suffer as a country in terms of external shocks in the event that we face ... view
• 16 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: paid as a country. That basically means that, that company traded with KPRL, got proceeds from it and then paid the Kenyan Government! Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that is completely unacceptable. The other question that I want to ask - and I have read through the Report – is this: Before you sign any contract between the Kenyan Government and any other entity, there is need for the Attorney-General or his Office to be involved in such a contract in terms of advice and execution of the same. From the Report, you do not see any evidence of involvement of ... view
• 16 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: They have even gone ahead to sign an exit clause in the contract conditioning and forcing the Kenyan public, in the event that we are separating with that company, the Government of Kenya must again give those people US$5million to pay them. There is even no explanation as to what reason is informing that. We should not just be complaining as a House. If we have to exercise our oversight role properly, we must ask the Executive to act decisively on the officers who were involved. I can see that the recommendation in the Report is that the Ethics and ... view
• 16 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: There is the Report of the Auditor-General on the same. I do not see why the Government machinery cannot move with speed. There is no law in this country that conditions the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to only act on the report of EACC. The DPP can act on any report that has evidence that a State officer or any other public officer has acted in a manner that has compromised the integrity of that office and exposed the people of Kenya to loss through taxpayer’s money. So, if you ask me, my recommendation is that as we support ... view