John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This Motion is not pursuant to Article 223 of the Constitution. I would, therefore, request that before we transact it, we should be sure that we are within the constitutional provision; the Estimates should, first, be referred to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Why do I say so? If you read Article 223(2), on which this Motion is based, it is very clear that approval by Parliament of any spending under this Article should be sought within two months after the first withdraw of the money. If Parliament is not in session, ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: This will enable us ascertain that every item that the Government is asking us to approve expenditure for was incurred within two months, or if the House was not in session, approval was sought within two weeks; I know we are beyond this because we have been in session for more than two weeks. If the expenditure was incurred within two months, then we need a committee to scrutinise every item, so that this House does not violate the provisions of the Constitution. The Constitution dictates that we can only approve expenditure through Supplementary Estimates only if it was incurred ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, given the discussion that has gone on this afternoon, I wish to request that the debate be now adjourned to future time. I do not know whether I need to say anything but let me just remind this House that there was a time Supplementary Budget Estimates were brought to the 10th Parliament and you remember they had a computer error. We do not want to get embarrassed again if there are such errors in this Supplementary Budget Estimates. Some could be very innocent errors, and if the Committee of the House can have time to scrutinize ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support the Motion as amended. While supporting this Motion, allow me, first of all, to say that after food, the most important human need is health. Health is a very important requirement in human life. As a country, we must put it ahead of everything else. view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when I took over as a Member of Parliament for what used to be called Gwassi Constituency and now is Suba Constituency more than five years ago, I had an intention of having, at least, one health facility per sub-location. That is because our people die of diseases and sickness which can be cured very easily. Because health facilities are spread far apart many people take time before they seek small medical attention. In the past five years, I had put up eight health facilities and all of them lack medical personnel. I have had constant ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Hon. David Ochieng, the Member of Parliament for Ugenya, has brought a timely Motion. I have heard my colleagues say that he should have brought this Motion before the Budget. But this is not the end of Budget process. We still have many budgets that this House will transact. I want also to put it clear that this House is not helpless. As opposed to the previous Houses, this House has the capacity and it is not a Budget approving House, but a Budget making House. Therefore, it is within our mandate and responsibility to redirect ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with regard to the Motion before the House, I have heard the Chair of the Health Committee complain about having devolved Kshs64 billion out of the total Kshs98 billion allocated to the Ministry Health for obvious reasons. The people of Kenya decided to devolve the function of health. If you read the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, you will realize that most of the health functions are actually devolved to the counties. Health centres and dispensaries, including pharmaceuticals, distribute drugs to health facilities. I do not know whether there will be The electronic version of the ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: difficulties because there were economies of scale we realized from using Kenya Medical Supplies Agency. But this is the wisdom of the people of Kenya. What I do not know and which I think we need to work out properly is the fact that governors and the county governments need to know clearly the function of health has actually been devolved. This is something that we cannot gamble with. Since we have devolved over 70 per cent of the functions and the provision of health in this country, we require even better provision of services and that is why the ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would urge our governors together with the county governments to move with speed and come up with the actual cost of providing those services in our health centres, dispensaries and even provide a list of drugs that are required, including the list of nurses and clinical officers so that a sufficient number is employed. If there is no money, we need to have the correct figures so that in the next Budget, this House can give adequate funds for the provision of those services. But at this stage, it is late for us to even ... view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those very many remarks, I beg to support. view