John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3501 to 3510 of 7480.

• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to oppose this amendment. First, I know that the Office of the Auditor-General requires proper funding but we must also make Committees of Parliament do their work within the current law. Once the Cabinet Secretary gets the Estimates as at now, they will still come to the relevant Committee of Parliament. Therefore the relevant Committee of Parliament, within the law, has the capacity to vary the figures based on discussion but if we make all agencies to be sending their budgets directly to Parliament, we have a problem in that there will be no ... view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have no problems with the amendment in (1). However, I have a problem with inserting a new subclause immediately after subclause (7) that outsourcing of any audit service--- view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: We are dealing with (1) first. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is the amendment that I had a problem with. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The problem that I have with this amendment is that so long as the Auditor-General can prove that he outsourced the external auditor who is above board, it is extremely difficult to hold the Auditor-General responsible for mistakes that a professional firm conducts. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, but we are giving him the space to outsource. We know what is involved in auditing. It would be irresponsible for us to make the Auditor-General liable for a commission by a professionally registered auditing firm. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: The outsourcing is happening because we are not able to give the Auditor-General enough staff. We are not able to hire. If we were able to give the Auditor –General enough resources to hire enough staff to carry out auditing, we would not want him to outsource. However, the moment we fail then we tell him to take this route and then we hold him responsible, I think that is going to be bad. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I really support this amendment and I want my colleagues who are opposing it to listen to me for just a minute. For the Auditor-General to understand the genesis of the advice he is getting, he needs to sit there. This is just a common practice. On most boards, you have the Chief Executive Officer of the organisation sitting there and the boards make decisions and advise the secretariat. The Auditor-General, sitting on the Board, will get first-hand information on why certain actions recommended by the Board should be the way they are. There is no ... view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am also opposing, but for wrong--- Different reasons. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am also opposing, but for wrong--- Different reasons. view