John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: No, I wanted to (inaudible) view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this Bill. First of all, I want to start from the memorandum of objects and reasons. It says that the Security Laws (Amendments) Bill, 2014 is in keeping with the practice of making minor amendments which do not merit the publication of a separate Bill and consolidating them into one Bill. Even from that memorandum of objects alone, are we sure that we are just making minor amendments? The answer is no. We are making fundamental amendments to various laws which even go a long way through ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as I was saying, the Deputy President is the political son of Moi. Therefore, we have a mix of two leaders. First, this is a price Kenyans are paying. It is a price that we are paying as a country for electing and having in office, through election or rigging, people who do not believe in civil liberty of the people of Kenya. We are going to pay this price for five years. view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: ( Loud consultations ) view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Although I expected you to start with my Secretary-General before you come to the Chair, I rise on a point of order because we are just about to debate a very important Bill. It is an omnibus Bill. The Constitution, in Article 118, is in line with previous rulings of the Chair regarding constitutionality, when debating matters that come before the House. If you go to Article 118 and specifically 118(1)(b) it states: “Parliament shall facilitate public participation and involvement in the legislative and other business of Parliament and its committees”. I am aware that Parliament did request the public ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Although I expected you to start with my Secretary-General before you come to the Chair, I rise on a point of order because we are just about to debate a very important Bill. It is an omnibus Bill. The Constitution, in Article 118, is in line with previous rulings of the Chair regarding constitutionality, when debating matters that come before the House. If you go to Article 118 and specifically 118(1)(b) it states: “Parliament shall facilitate public participation and involvement in the legislative and other business of Parliament and its committees”. I am aware that Parliament did request the public ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: I have just said that according to the advert put up by Parliament inviting public to present their views on this particular Bill, that deadline is Monday, next week. Therefore, the people of Kenya are preparing to submit their concerns, proposals and suggestions regarding this Bill, either today or even on Monday because from tomorrow up to Sunday, those will not be working days. If we continue to transact this Bill having invited the people of Kenya to present their views to the Committee by Monday and we go ahead with Second Reading, we are going to disadvantage a good ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: I have just said that according to the advert put up by Parliament inviting public to present their views on this particular Bill, that deadline is Monday, next week. Therefore, the people of Kenya are preparing to submit their concerns, proposals and suggestions regarding this Bill, either today or even on Monday because from tomorrow up to Sunday, those will not be working days. If we continue to transact this Bill having invited the people of Kenya to present their views to the Committee by Monday and we go ahead with Second Reading, we are going to disadvantage a good ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: I am actually not debating the Bill, but our rules do not allow us to debate an unconstitutional Bill. How then would you determine that a Bill is unconstitutional without citing a few clauses in the Bill? This idea of people saying that you cannot debate the Bill, I am hearing it for the first time. Actually, I think it is informed by ignorance. A lot of times, and you can go through the HANSARD Reports - I urge the hon. Members who came in this Parliament recently to be reading HANSARD Reports. I think the problem is that we ... view
• 11 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: I am actually not debating the Bill, but our rules do not allow us to debate an unconstitutional Bill. How then would you determine that a Bill is unconstitutional without citing a few clauses in the Bill? This idea of people saying that you cannot debate the Bill, I am hearing it for the first time. Actually, I think it is informed by ignorance. A lot of times, and you can go through the HANSARD Reports - I urge the hon. Members who came in this Parliament recently to be reading HANSARD Reports. I think the problem is that we ... view