John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I just want to remind hon. Jakoyo that Standing Order No.87 that he has read out is referring to the contents of speeches. A similar Standing Order is found in the Standing Orders of the Senate. They are also prohibited from discussing proceedings of the National Assembly. If the speech by the Speaker of the Senate or the other Senator who was mentioned was made on the Floor of the Senate, then it is very unfortunate. However, if it was made out there, why should it bother us? Any other Kenyan can talk the way he or she wishes. Hon. ... view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: My concern with the way we have transacted this Supplementary Budget and the Supplementary Appropriation is that if you look at what is contemplated in Article 223, because that is where the Government derives the power to spend or have the Supplementary Appropriation Bill on the Floor of the House, it envisages a situation where the Government has overspent and not where the Government contemplates to 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
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: overspend. Therefore, I keep on asking myself whether in future we would still like to continue going the way we are going. This is because we cannot approve the Supplementary Appropriation Bill for an amount that has not been spent by the Government. view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: This Article provides that the national Government may spend money that has not been appropriated. If that happens then they need, within two months after the first or initial expenditure, to bring a request to the National Assembly for approval of the same which will then be followed by the Supplementary Appropriation Bill. view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I know they say that old habits die hard. However, I would wish that the Government takes steps to actualize or operationalize the provisions of the Constitution as it is without hanging on to old ways of doing things. The way the Supplementary Budget is today should radically be different. We can have as many supplementary budgets as possible as long as the Government can convince us that there was necessity to either overspend because of needs that were not anticipated or it has overspent because the amounts that were provided were not sufficient. view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I also want to talk about certain or specific allocations or amounts that have been appropriated through the Appropriation Bill. You will realize that we even added the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) in the Supplementary Budget but in actual sense, it was not adding anything to that Fund. What we have done is just trying to correct what the Ministry has failed to do. The Ministry is required by law, and through the CDF Act, that any amount budgeted in a year must be transferred to the CDF Fund Account. At the end of the year, you will realize that ... view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: The same applies to the county government funds. The law protects, through the Public Finance Management Act, the Kshs.210 billion that was allocated to the counties. This money must be transferred to the County Revenue Fund Account before 30th June so that even if it is not spent, that amount is available. That is how the Treasury should act until we change that law. So, the Treasury should not ask us next year to provide, through the budgetary process, an amount that has already been protected by the law. This distorts the budget process. This is because you will be ... view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I would like to inform the Treasury that even as they wait for the counties to spend the money, they should know that the amount that we budgeted for the 2013/2014 Financial Year should be transferred by the end of this financial year to the County Revenue Fund so that they do not ask us in the 2014/2015 Financial Year to, again, appropriate through the Supplementary Budget an amount that they should have taken care of. view
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I also want to add my voice on what the Leader of Majority Party has said. I think those who are reporting debates in this House, whether it is the media or through talk shows need to be factual and truthful. It was reported that the Budget and Appropriations Committee re-allocated Kshs.500 million from the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) just because of the issues that Parliament had with the Judiciary, and 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
• 25 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: this is not true. Some of us would not like to take money from the Judiciary because of the differences which exist between us. view