John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, since this House came into being, we have actually grappled with the issue of holding the Executive to account. A lot of times, the Membership of this House have sought for Statement from fellow Members of Parliament in the name of Chairs of Committees. Ordinarily, it is very hard to interrogate your colleagues in the National Assembly, who are not members of the Executive. Therefore, we called upon the Committee to look for ways of having this House hold the Executive to account. Therefore, I want to just support this Committee. I am happy that the Committee went ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: My only request to the Speaker is that when it comes to Statements going to the Executive, because we are very many and the time available is limited, I would rather we restrict it to Statements of national importance – serious issues that require interrogation. I would not really be so pleased to hear of question about a bridge in my local location being asked to the Cabinet Minister and yet, we have other matters of bigger magnitude. It is not that a bridge in my local location is not important, but that one can be transacted in the Committee. ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Hon. Duale is forgetting he was also at one point an Assistant Minister. At least, not only was I just an Assistant Minister, but an Assistant Prime Minister. So, I had more clout. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, but my point of order is that you heard the Leader of the Majority Party call a Senator for Kisumu County arrogant. I think that is unparliamentary. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: No. I got him very well and you are not him. Can you kindly listen? Neither are you the Speaker. I think the Leader of the Majority Party needs to show respect to the Senator of Kisumu County from the great city of Kisumu and withdraw that remark and apologise. He is not arrogant; he is only intelligent. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I want to say that this is the time when we are going to take time off our legislative agenda and embark on representation and oversight. I want to give an assurance to this House that the Public Accounts Committee--- view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is one of the reasons why I deserve the recess. It is also caused by unwanted virus, which probably, has affected me. The Public Accounts Committee has been blamed widely for not approving accounts in good time. But that is not the truth. The truth is that Government accounts are so voluminous that we require a lot of time to do good work and do a report to this House. What the Public Accounts Committee has done is, we have finished with the 2010/2011 financial year accounts, and right now we are doing concurrently the ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: ready. That committee is working overtime and this is even a added opportunity for us to embark on these reports and do a report to the House. I just want to touch on two issues. One, the Parliamentary Service Commission has been accused of not doing a good job. But, I want to remind my colleagues that the only institution that has had a good transition is Parliament, and this has been courtesy of Parliamentary Service Commission. It is not easy to transit from 210 Members to over 400 Members. Therefore I think we should not discourage Members of the ... view