John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do not know where that is coming from. Anyway, thank you. I get you. view
• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Okay. I appreciate it. First of all, it is important to understand why this document became necessary. The Constitution only provides that budget estimates need to be tabled in Parliament two months before the end of each financial year. However, we saw it fit in the last Parliament to come up with a document that would set the pace for the budget process. We felt at that time, and I think it is still valid, that getting budget estimates leaves us with very little room to engage constructively with the National Treasury in terms of priorities and going forward on ... view
• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: However, when the Government comes up with various pillars, and the Government has set five pillars to drive the development, one would imagine that the Jubilee Administration looked at their manifesto. The pillars that they come up with should be in line with realising their manifesto. The question I want to put to the Jubilee Administration is: Have you looked at your manifesto and aligned it to the budget priorities? I say this because when you talk of creating a conducive business environment for employment creation, have you assessed whether the strategies that you are putting in place would realise ... view
• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: That is why I was asking whether the Jubilee Administration looks at its manifesto. It may be fodder for us in the Opposition. It may be very good for us in the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Opposition, but I am a Kenyan and I am interested in my people being secure in terms of food security. view
• 12 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Therefore, it would have been very good for me to wait for the five years of the Jubilee Administration to end and I start asking them where the one million acres on irrigation are. I do not want to do that because then, I would be an irresponsible citizen of this country. I want to talk to the Jubilee Administration today. There is corruption in the irrigation programme. The so-called Galana Irrigation Programme is not going as per the plan. There is corruption there. Under the programme of having 10,000 acres under irrigation per year, for how many years will ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Let me say that the Budget process must be an organized process. You should make a ruling that is not going to set a bad precedent in this House. My Chair mentioned how long it took us to go through these Budget Estimates. I listened to one of my friends, hon. Onyonka saying that, as a Member of the Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee, that you do not change proposals. The truth of the matter is that while in his Committee, he is allowed by law to change money from local travels to international travels whatever ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you asked me a specific question: What is a money Bill? A money Bill includes taxation. By the way, the law says that if the Motion, in the opinion of the Speaker--- You are right! It is you who is going to decide, but you will decide based on the law. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: A money Bill deals with taxes, imposition of charges on a public fund or variation. That is the word that some of us are forgetting. If you take a certain amount of money from one Vote to another, that is variation. This is simple English, in my view. What hon. Gumbo is doing is varying the amount meant for public hearings and putting it at zero and taking that money to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Vote, which was Kshs35 billion. It is now going to be Kshs38 billion. He has varied the amounts. That is a money Bill. There ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I listened to hon. Jakoyo. I was surprised and shocked at the same time. He said that what the Committee of this House did is unconstitutional, and that it cannot purport to do the work of the Executive – which, in his view, is appropriation. Our Committee is Budget and Appropriations Committee. We are responsible for appropriating funds. We can even change all the figures from the Executive, if we want. Theoretically, we can do it. In fact, some people are living in the old constitutional dispensation. Unfortunately, hon. Midiwo is turning out to be one of those ... view