John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4961 to 4970 of 7480.

• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, aware that the Cabinet Secretary responsible for National Treasury is not a Member of Parliament, and given that we have subscribed to the international treaty, but we are likely to have Budget policy highlights and revenue raising measures read to the nation; aware that our Constitution does not explicitly bar any person who is not a Member of Parliament from coming to the plenary, I would urge that the House Rules and Procedure Committee makes a provision before Wednesday next week in our Standing Orders, so that we can allow this House to convert itself into a Committee ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, aware that the Cabinet Secretary responsible for National Treasury is not a Member of Parliament, and given that we have subscribed to the International Treaty, but we are likely to have Budget policy highlights and revenue raising measures read to the nation; aware that our Constitution does not explicitly bar any person who is not a Member of Parliament from coming to the plenary, I would urge that the House Rules and Procedures Committee makes a provision before Wednesday next week in our Standing Orders, so that we can allow this House to convert itself into a Committee ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I support the Motion, allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate you for presiding over the House and I thank this House for having confidence in you. I think so far you have shown that you can preside over this House with confidence and competently. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Having said that, I want to thank the Mover of this Motion, Hon. Chris Wamalwa, and I think this is a timely Motion. First of all, it is important to appreciate that an institution can just do so much. That it is not possible for one institution to be doing so many activities at the same time. The National Cereals and Produce Board, in my view, should concentrate on its core mandate of storing our produce – the produce from farmers rather than getting involved in distribution of fertilizer. In the end, it compromises its ability to efficiently and effectively ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, seed distribution has been given to the Kenya Seed Company and I think it is important that now we also think seriously about the distribution of fertilizer and give it to a separate board to manage. It does not do the country any justice to give fertilizer to farmers when the rains are over. It does not do any justice to give fertilizer to farmers when they do not need it. If we have a body that is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: answerable only for distribution of fertilizer, it will be very easy to oversee it and it will be very easy for that body to professionalise in distribution because we have a big problem with fertilizer distribution. A number of times we hear the Government giving assurance to the public that they have been able to source and buy fertilizer and they are going to subsidise it, but in the end you realise that some unscrupulous business people get involved in between and get this fertilizer and extort money from farmers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, sometimes you do not understand how ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: stores and finally to consumers? Sometimes you realize that we produce a lot of crops and because of poor storage, we end up wasting all the crops. We end up throwing all the millions and billions of shillings that we inject in irrigation schemes due to carelessness in terms of storage. Therefore, I expect the current Cabinet Secretary responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture to come up with very clear policies on how to irrigate; bring more agricultural land through irrigation. After that, we want to see how fertilizers are distributed. We want to see how these crops that we ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Finally, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have seen from the Motion that Hon. Wamalwa is asking for construction of a fertilizer factory. But remember that this country is repaying a loan for the construction of Ken Ren fertilizer factory that never was. This country has not even stopped for a minute to ask itself where this money went. We took a loan to construct that factor but what happened? Who were responsible? Those people are still alive. They have not gone anywhere. If they were in power then, right now they are not in power. We need to hold them ... view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 4 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I support the Motion, allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate you for presiding over the House and I thank this House for having confidence in you. I think so far you have shown that you can preside over this House with confidence and competently. view