John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

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• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: because we need to be efficient as a House, both in our Committees because when we sit in those Committees we use public resources. Even this House would be reluctant to debate two reports on the same matter. So, having the same members of the Executive appearing before more than one Committee to answer to the same queries is inefficiency in totality for our country. I do not advocate for that. Therefore, we need to find a way where this House shall not engage in the same matter more than once. I mean not more than one Committee should investigate ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Majority Party and the Deputy Leader of Minority Party to report these names so that action is taken. We cannot sit here and allow the reputation of this Parliament to continue coming down every day. I plead with you as you make a ruling on this issue also to consider asking the Leader of Majority Party and the Deputy Leader of Minority Party to mention them. They spoke with a lot of confidence and passion about those who are either intimidating others or going out there for financial gains. In fact, they did not shy away from saying “financial gain”. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the Report of my Committee and first I want to start by saying that Section 25 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act requires the National Treasury to prepare and submit to Parliament the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) by the 15th in each year. This Statement, as has been said before, needs to give an assessment of the current state of the economy and the financial outlook over the medium term. Secondly, it is to give financial outlook with respect to Government revenues, expenditure and borrowing for both the next ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: transfers also to the county governments. If you look at our BPS, there is indicative transfer and I would plead with this House. I know this was a decision that was taken by my Committee but I think what the governors and the county governments have been asking for; Kshs238 billion, I think is something that we may need to consider when we are doing the Division of Revenue Bill so that we do not starve our counties of resources because the counties need to cost their functions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other aspect that needs to be addressed ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Well, I do not have it here but I have the BPS. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is actually based on facts. Actually, we got a report from the Parliament Budget Office. The level of consultation was one out of five which means it is 20 per cent. That is very low. So, if you look at the analysis which I have from our Parliament Budget Office, that is an area that has been faulted. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can also critique the Report. The focus of the Government is on allocation of resources to individual programmes. This is an area that is also deficient in this particular Budget Policy Statement. I am addressing the BPS because the Report of Parliament is not the only thing we are debating. We are debating the Report together with the BPS. If we see new projects being introduced yet there is no clear feedback as to what happened to the programmes of the previous year and whether the targets and outputs were actually achieved--- One would have ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: containing growth of total expenditure through good governance, PFM oversight, expenditure management and tax and revenue reforms. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: That is spelt out in the BPS as one of the key pillars or objectives to be achieved. Then one would have expected that when you look at the BPS, you get deliberate and systematic efforts towards ensuring that, that pillar is realized. But even though this is very attractive, in my view it comes out clearly that this is just mere academic exercise with no serious effort to actualize it, as I will demonstrate shortly. You will allow me to say at that point because I wanted to make this point that there has been talk about the heavy ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the BPS talks about ensuring efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in the--- view