John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: The most critical thing is for the accounting officers to take advantage of management letters, so that when audit queries are minimized, they give Parliament enough time to look at more reports, within a very short period. If you have so many audit queries, some of which are even just technical, then it takes a lot of Parliament’s time. Article 203 of the Constitution, as you rightly put it, puts responsibility on this House to be up to date with the financial reports, so that we have a basis upon which we can divide our revenue. Otherwise, we will be ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: The issues being raised in these Reports, if you go through them, are voluminous. If you look at the issues being raised, they are the same and consistent every year. Therefore, this means that the accounting officers do not pay special attention to audit reports and also the reports of Parliament. Parliament’s time should be utilized in a good way and we should not legislate in vain. Once we pass a report, there is a requirement that a memorandum must be prepared by the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury. This House, through the committee concerned, which is the Committee ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: You will allow me to just address four issues because of time. The first issue that has been ably amplified in these Reports, and which my Chairman has ably addressed is under-expenditure and under-collection of Appropriation-in-Aid. It is reported that under-expenditure is about 40 per cent in many instances and under-collection would even a hit a high of 75. The reasons for this range from one, non-release of funds by donors, which is as a result of poor accounting by our various Government Ministries. Donors are very particular in accounting. Two, slow implementation of projects and that has to do ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: The other issue that I wanted to touch on is with regard to management of public debt. The Committee, in the two Reports has noted that even after asking the accounting officers to provide for audit verification a full disclosure of the breakdown of the public debt, this did not take place as at the time of writing the Reports, and it is not acceptable. Once Committees of Parliament ask Ministries or accounting officers to give a breakdown of the money we borrowed and show where it is applied, that information needs to be given because this country has a ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: laptops. Probably, we were going to see another Ken-Ren in the making. Therefore, I would urge His Excellency the President, the Deputy President and the entire Cabinet, that instead of bothering Kenyans who are already pressed with the high cost of living – because really reducing someone’s salary is not possible - to seal these loopholes which we have seen over the years. Hon. Speaker, some people are being listed today as who is who in this country; the richest, the wealthiest. They are put on the front pages of the media, but these are the people who “ate” money ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I really appreciate the contribution by my friend, hon. Gikaria, but I want to correct him on the issue that he has raised concerning communication. I am not general in my Bill in terms of what communication areas need exemption. I have just cited two. I was not general in all communication areas. I have only talked about the credit reference bureau services, which is Item No.19 - if you check your Bill. The second one is postal services. Those are the only two areas of communication. I only mentioned communication as a sub-topic ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I appreciate your ruling but this is an issue that is bringing into focus some fundamental issues. The Mover has a maximum of 60 minutes but he can even move for two minutes. In the event that the Motion had been moved for 15 minutes, I was just thinking that you could either do one of the two: One is to treat the Motion as having been moved because many of us are ready to proceed and two, if that is not agreeable, then given that I stepped down for hon. Namwamba to be the Chair of PAC--- ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I just want to thank you and the petitioners for bringing that Petition to the House. The issue of Migingo and Ugingo has been outstandingin this country. It has caused us a lot of embarrassment. Remember some of us even had to travel all the way to Uganda, Kampala, to discuss this issue when the Ugandans realized that the map was actually indicating that Migingo and Ugingo are in Kenya. That was when the whole thing was stopped; the whole discussion was stopped. We were promised and even Amani allocated funds for the survey. Therefore, I would like ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: But before I sit down, I would also like to thank the current Senator of Kakamega who was the MP for Ikolomani then, who brought a successful Motion to this House. This House debated and unanimously adopted that Kenya should take every step necessary to make sure that our territorial waters are protected. view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view