John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to second the Motion to adopt the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee with regards to Supplementary Budget II. Hon. Speaker, first of all, let me say that this Government is making history today. The history is that, for the first time in the history of this country, we are having a second Supplementary Budget. Whether it is a good history or a bad one, it is left for us and Kenyans to judge. Hon. Speaker, however, I think one would also appreciate that this Government came into power in the middle of ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Chair talked about the changes in the Vote of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) but for avoidance of doubt and for clarity, I want to say that there is no additional money we are giving the PSC. What is happening is that initially, we had reallocated Kshs570 million from the Recurrent Vote to the Development Vote of Parliament but based on the developing scenario, we realized that we over-transferred funds from the Recurrent Expenditure to Development Expenditure and, therefore, we feel that, out of that Kshs570 million, Kshs300 million should be retained under the Recurrent Vote to ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to touch on areas that the Chairman did not mention; specifically, I want to refer to loans. This House needs to be very clear because I do not want to see a situation where hon. Members walk out of this House not knowing what exactly we have approved. This House must realize that among the amounts we are approving, in terms of new loans, in this Supplementary Budget, is Kshs1.4 billion that was paid to the so-called Anglo Leasing projects. It is in this Supplementary Budget Estimates. Therefore, we need to know that the Government paid ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: allocation that we absorb almost 100 per cent is that of Recurrent Expenditure; at times we even spend more than the allocation. view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: If we did not pay the loans, it means we have not used development budget; so, where is the cash that we are collecting from our taxes every month? It begs the question whether this Government has over-borrowed from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). Have we reached our limits in terms of overdrafts at the CBK? I think the National Treasury needs to be very clear and tell Parliament that we need to be very clear on how we manage our debts. The office that is responsible for managing debts at the Treasury should now be in place, if ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Hon. Nyamweya is a good friend of mine and I do not want to be interrupting him every time he speaks because it has become a tradition. There is an allegation that he has made, which should not go on record without being challenged. As much as I appreciate his concerns about the roads and others, he is not right to say that Parliament has increased its budget. What we have done is simply to reallocate from one vote of Parliament to another. It is not that Parliament is putting more ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairlady, I rise to support this Memorandum for the simple reason that there is no reason of even denying governors the privilege of flying the national flag. In fact, I wish the President included governors in his proposed amendment, so that they would also fly the national flag. This is because Executive authority is exercised at two levels - the national level and the county level. At the county level, it should be exercised in the same manner as it is exercised at the national level. I do not even see the need for this legislation in the first ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: not very enthusiastic about it. I am forced by the tyranny of numbers from both sides of the political divide this time round. The tyranny of numbers has marginalised my idea, but I support. Next time we should amend the Bill to allow the governors to fly our national flag. view