John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: have access to clean drinking water is less than 20. My intention is to raise this variable to 80 per cent by 2020. I intend to leave the National Assembly in 2022, when I will be vying for a bigger position in this country, but before I leave the people of Suba as their MP, I would want to see that at least 80 per cent of them have access to clean drinking water, and that there is no one covering more than 500 metres in search of clean drinking water. This can only be a reality if provision of ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Even though that bit was removed, I still believe strongly that this House may consider reversing the Committee’s decision during the Committee Stage of this Bill by bringing books onboard. Why? Because I believe that those who are using books to write in this country are poor. Those who are not poor do not use books. If you are not poor but you use books, you are said to be analogue. If we exclude books and paper from taxation, we will be lowering the cost of living for many Kenyans. This House is at liberty to even include more items ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Therefore, you will even find that for the items that are not included here, view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: will demand that their prices decrease and you will see the net benefit of low inflation rate in this country. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me say one word as I wind up and this is not intended for politics, I want to praise the President and the Deputy President for what they did by giving a signal that they are surrendering 20 per cent of their salary. But I want to remind them that they cannot cut their salary. That is unconstitutional. What they can do is to write to their Accounting Officer to surrender the salary they do not want back to the State. But you cannot say that you are cutting your salary. The law does not ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Having said that, I also want to conclude by saying that no Kenyan should be forced--- I am talking on behalf of the parastatal chiefs because they have no way of expressing themselves. I think it is unfair to order them to take a salary cut. You cannot order anyone to take a salary cut. You can only ask someone to accept to reduce his salary but you cannot order anyone to take a salary cut. The issue of salaries and a ballooning wage bill is something of concern to this country and we need to be objective about it. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon Temporary Deputy Speaker, he is totally out of order. I was only expressing myself. I want to conclude by saying that the issue of salaries needs to be discussed and discussed soberly; we need to look for very pragmatic ways of reducing the wage bill in this country. In that we are together with the President, his Deputy and his entire Government. With those few remarks, I beg to move and ask hon. Makali to second my Bill. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I did not really want to interrupt my Chair but you will appreciate that a PAC Report is a very important report for this House. But the microphone that my Chair is using is not audible enough. We cannot hear as much as we would want to hear his contributions. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion seeking the approval of this House to adopt the Reports of the PAC for the two Financial Years, that is 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. I am aware that I have just 10 minutes to make my contribution. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: By asking this House in 2014 to adopt reports of up to June 2010, it is a clear reflection that a lot still needs to be done. As you rightly put it, Article 229 of the Constitution speaks to the Auditor-General having six months from the end of a financial year. Within those six months, the accounting officers have three months, from 1st July to 30th September, to prepare accounting reports to be submitted to the Auditor-General for audit and thereafter, for subsequent submission to Parliament, which we need to receive immediately after December. I would only urge accounting officers ... view