John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. My name is Hon. Umulkher Harun and it is with great honour and responsibility that I am able to serve in this 13th Parliament. I appreciate my party, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), for believing in my capacity and allowing me to represent the interests of young people in this country. I also want to congratulate all Members who were elected and nominated from different political parties and wish them well as they discharge their mandate. President William Samoei Ruto in his inaugural session in this House outlined various ... view
• 11 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: because it cannot produce enough. The food shortage is largely because we are not producing for subsistence use but for international markets whose economic policy does not favour the producers especially in the Third World countries. Kenya does not need GMOs to tackle food security. What we need are policies and universally available food preservation methods. We lose a lot of food to wastage due to rejection by international exporters. Using the drought as a reason to allow GMOs in Kenya without ensuring all the safeguards are in place is wrong. For example, Kenya has not ratified the Nagoya – ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am alive to the fact that we have very many new Members. We need to start training them from day one. An Hon. Member, whose name I am yet to learn, has twice crossed the Floor going to the other side and coming back without going to the Bar. In terms of orientation, we want to help you that next time you must go to the Bar, bow to the Chair and then cross over to the other side. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me first start by saying that we have started in the right direction. Why do I say so? You have allowed Members to ventilate on this matter. It comes out very clearly that you want to benefit from opinions or contributions by Members from across the political divide. Hon. Speaker, there are certain things that are not in contention. One, that both Kenya Kwanza Coalition and Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition are not in dispute on who should lead the two Coalitions. There is just one letter which came from Kenya Kwanza Coalition nominating ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: If you want to argue that Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition is a political party and not a coalition of political parties, the question you would like to ask or address yourself to is this: What are the legal provisions for registering a political party? They are clear. You must have 24,000 members, at least 1,000 from majority of our counties, which are 24. Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition was exempted from that because it is a corporate political party. When you say that this is not a coalition, the next question you will ask is where in ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition was exempted from provisions of Section 5 and Section 6 of the Political Parties Act. Why? Because this is a corporate political entity—a political party which has corporate membership. That is why we were amending the law here. So that you could provide a situation where a political party is both a political party where you can be a member directly and, at the same time, political parties can be members of that political party. That is the situation as it obtains today. You can take advantage of it and make sure ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you know Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition is based on a coalition agreement, just like any other coalition, like Kenya Kwanza. It is based on a coalition agreement. I listened very carefully and I was trying to avoid usage of these words, but I will use them because Hon. Osoro used them. Hon. Osoro was saying that you cannot stop a political party from going to bed with another one. That is, if someone has married another person, you cannot stop them from going to bed with them. Yes! You cannot stop anybody from going to bed ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I think Hon. Omboko is uncomfortable with the language, but the language is not un-parliamentary. Going to bed is just going to bed; and marriage is marriage. What am saying is that you cannot start another marriage until you wind up the previous marriage. Hon. Osoro you should advise your new whatever – what do we call them? You should advise it to make sure that the other marriage is first concluded. There was an argument here by Hon. Duale which, if you allow me to challenge, that there is something unconstitutional about what we have done in ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view