John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4441 to 4450 of 7480.

• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I appreciate the Order of business that has just been read by the Leader of Majority Party, but I have two concerns. First, if you look at our calendar, what we are likely to embark on especially the Budget making process, we have very limited time and we have about eight Constitutional Bills to pass in this House. I am particularly concerned that one of those Bills is supposed to implement Article 227 of the Constitution; that is procurement. That is a Bill that we need to put a lot of our time on. Besides that, there is ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Secondly and of great concern to me – this I address to the Leader of Majority Party as one who is speaking on behalf of the Jubilee Government – if you look at the Bills we are transacting of late and probably the Bills that are lined up for discussion in the coming weeks, you do not see serious Government Bills; Bills that are going to help the lives of Kenyans; that are going to change their lives. The Jubilee Government must know that it is not business as usual. They were not elected into office to continue running the ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir--- view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Actually, I had wanted to contribute to this Bill from yesterday, but because we are 349 hon. Members, I have been patiently waiting for my time which has finally come. First of all, I want to start by saying that I was looking at the functions and the role of the Senate. Our Constitution provides for the role of Senate, hon. Members of Parliament and the governors. Each office has a distinct role to play in the Republic of Kenya. My concern is that, in this country it appears that wherever we have issues, instead of ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: waiting for them. By the way, even before election time, you can do what Kenyans call “to Wambora them”through an impeachment. Why can the Senate not utilize those avenues as provided in the Constitution? Why do the Senators want to chair development activities at the county level yet they are supposed to play oversight role? They are required to receive reports on the expenditure at the national level. Hon. Speaker, I have heard my colleagues talk about duplication of projects. Sure, that is not a good thing. But it is because we have refused to accept that there are functions ... view
• 6 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I have also heard – I know this may not please many people – people saying that they did not elect mini-presidents in the county. I want to repeat that we elected mini-presidents in the counties. If we did not want to elect mini-presidents in the counties, we should have amended the Constitution. Hon. Speaker, once you are a Member of Parliament you would want to be a governor in future, or senator. I would want to be a governor and I can run a county. Why not? I have the expertise in finance and I have the ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I did not want to interrupt my colleague from Igembe North - I believe - but given the level of interest in this particular Bill and because it is very rare to see this House full at this time, could we ask that we reduce the time of making contribution to have as many people as possible to contribute to this Bill? view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this Bill has just about three clauses dealing with the setting up of the county boards; setting up of the sub-county board and the ward board. It has just about three clauses. So, speaking for 30 minutes or ten minutes on just three clauses, in my view, is not good use of our time. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From previous Speakers’ rulings, it came out very clearly that a House can only debate Bills that are constitutional. The Chair has ruled time and again that in the event that this House is doubtful about the constitutionality of a Bill, the best thing to do is to stop the discussion at the point of doubt and seek a proper ruling. I am saying this because it will be out of order for this House to debate something in vain. If the Speaker will rule that this issue is unconstitutional, the ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, a number of my colleagues have expressed the fears on the constitutionality of this Bill. I do know that a number of us have issues with governors but we are stretching it too far. I want to invite the Speaker to look at Article 95 of the Constitution. It says:- “(1) The National Assembly represents the people of the constituencies and special interests in the National Assembly. view