John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I just want to share with this House, if you indulge me, the kind of pain that I have gone through. This is because when I was taking my son to Maranda High School, he did not want to go because he felt that, that was a rural school. I had to persuade the young Maxwell Mbadi to go to Maranda High School. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: When the results were out, unfortunately, the son was with me in the house and when I asked him whether he knew whether his school had performed well, he said that it was unranked school. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am just expressing to you the pain or the kind of stress--- view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am going to my point of order which is straightforward. When Statements are sought, it is very clear that the Committee should inquire into and report on. If you listened carefully to the statement of the Vice- Chair--- I now agree with the hon. Member from Meru who said yesterday that this Committee is incompetent. This Committee did not inquire into anything. They reported verbatim the report that was written to them from the Ministry. Could the Chair order this Committee to go and do an inquiry to find out--- This is because all the ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.37 of 2013) be read a Second time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, before the recent repeal of the VAT Act, in August, 2013, which became law in September, the same year; there was increased pressure to have a new VAT law in place to reduce the complexity in management and administration of the VAT in this country. This pressure was coming from the business community, economists, accountants, development partners and other stakeholders. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the main concern and ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: that, as representatives of the people, we were also wrong to allow VAT to be introduced on items which are considered basic, hence raising the cost of living. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my Bill therefore seeks to widen the list of goods and services exempt from taxation leading to low prices of those goods and services to particularly cushion the citizenry falling within the low income bracket from runaway prices of basic commodities by making them affordable to majority of the citizen of this country who we represent. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you read Article 95 of the Constitution it talks about the responsibility of the National Assembly and our responsibility is to come up with laws which would help the people of this country to lead better lives. If amending the Value Added Tax (VAT) Act to exempt more items which are considered basic is not such, then what would be of concern to the people of Kenya? This House then therefore has a challenge to rise to the occasion and help in reducing the cost of living which has sky rocketed over the past few ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my Bill intends to mitigate the high cost of living experienced when prices of basic commodities escalate when subjected to taxation. It also seeks to cushion farmers from high prices of critical inputs by exempting those inputs from taxation thereby making them affordable and in turn stimulate growth in the agricultural sector which is a key sector of the economy. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the value of the agricultural sector in this country cannot be overemphasised. We know Kenya is largely an agricultural country. The only other sector that would compete with the agricultural sector is probably tourism and, therefore, any legislation that would discourage or d affect the growth in the agricultural sector needs to be corrected. view