John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, could we have some order with Hon. Sankok? view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. That must have been a commercial break. Let me get back to the business of the House. Hon. Murugara raised two fundamental issues. I think we need to engage our minds into those issues and address them. I will start with the first issue that he raised regarding the infringement of the Constitution by providing the definition of a political party or political parties as it is in the proposed amendment. He cited that the old law that we are seeking to amend has provided for the definition under Article 260. If you go to ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: public participation. We do not have the definition of enough public participation in law. It is not there. In my view, the 21 days’ should suffice. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I know we would have problems with the provisions of this Bill in whichever way. The best thing for us to do is to converse. Talk to us, Hon. Murugara, and tell us what you feel needs to be changed. You can then propose amendments. Many Members, namely, 13 of them, have proposed amendments, and we are going to deal with them. We will consider amendments that merit consideration, but we ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to take the shortest time possible. Even though I have 15 minutes, I will take a third of that. First, I want to address myself to the question of whether we infringe on the Constitution when we expand the definition of a political party. I would want to invite those who are arguing like that to look at Article 92 and see that we were required to bring clarity to defining what a political party means. That is one. Two, is to those who are complaining about this Bill. I do not know whether they ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: My second last remark is as follows: As it is today, there is no clear provision on how to divide the political parties fund to parties which form a coalition. view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: If these Members of Parliament had numbers, they would show them. We have been told that about 150 Members are supporting a particular course. When we come to the Floor of this House, you can see the Members are hardly 20. That is why they are making noise. They know they do not have the capacity, the numbers and they do not have even the intellectual capacity to argue their case. Therefore, they will continue making noise. If you look at the provisions of this Bill, it is clear that now even those political parties which do not have numbers ... view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Instead of making noise and shouting like Hon. Alice Wahome is shouting as if she is in a market place, she should tell us where the 150 Members are. They have been boasting about the numbers. They have only 20 or 25 Members. Do not waste our time if you do not have numbers. We have come here to debate. 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
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support. view
• 22 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise on a point of order based on your ruling. As we proceed to have the Mover to reply, you have made a ruling that we are not going to have the afternoon sitting. My concern is that the afternoon sitting of the House was gazetted after the request by the Leader of the Majority Party. Therefore, once gazetted, a sitting of the House cannot be called off unless by the leave of the House. So, we have a properly constituted Special Sitting this afternoon on 22nd December 2021. It is only by leave ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to support approval of these nominees to the National Gender and Equality Commission. I have only two comments to make. One, the fact that a minority, in the manner that Hon. Sankok has described, can find her way into a commission as important as this demonstrates that the spirit of inclusivity that we have been talking about has started to gain ground. She is not just a member of a minority community, but she is also of a marginalised gender. How I wish that this is pushed further. We should continue to see ... view