John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4971 to 4980 of 7480.

• 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 (NCPB), 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 ... 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 a separate board to manage it. 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 answerable only for distribution of fertilizer, it will be very easy to oversee it and it will be ... view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Chairlady. Before I say anything, there is just a small thing I wanted to point out. You corrected the Member by telling him to go to the Bar, but one of the mistakes in these new standing orders is that they do not say that you have to go up to the end, as the old one did. So, you can bow anywhere. I just want us to look at that, those are the mistakes that we are complaining about. view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: I wish we could use traditions and practices in PIC and PAC but let me leave that. Let me go to the substance of the debate. Hon. Chairlady, I want to support hon. Sambu’s amendment. I think we need to keenly understand this provision and see the mischief. I remember when we were doing Public Finance Management Act, the Treasury tried as much as possible to take away and give themselves powers to view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Chairlady. It is not in order for the hon. Member to mislead the House that if there is a shortage, without passing this clause, we are exposing the counties. The Public Finance Management Act is very clear, once we appropriate money to the counties that money is supposed to go to the County Revenue Fund directly from Central Bank. You cannot get it back. So, the money that is already apportioned to counties through this House is secure. So, this fear that we are getting in this House that you are pretending to be ... view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairlady, first of all, this provision in the Bill was completely unnecessary. If you ask me, there is the Inter-governmental Relations Act in place; we have the Constitution in place. You did not need to bring the same provision in another bill. I support deletion because you are making it criminal to seek justice. There is nowhere in the world where you would criminalize quest for justice. By passing or not following the laid down procedures, it is a matter of law. Many of us may not know it. Then the lawyers will say that you did not follow ... view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: First of all, hon. Chairlady, let me put it on record that what hon. Nyokabi is seeking to achieve is not to amend the memorandum. Hon. Nyokabi is adding a new clause to the Bill which is Clause No.7. Let me advise the Leader of the Majority Party, I have dealt with Treasury for now about five years and I know that you have to be very careful when you are dealing with the Treasury. If the intention of the Treasury was just to explain to us or to give us memorandum, we would not have had these schedules, like ... view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: I listen to lawyers argue and I was asking myself, why was it necessary for this particular bill, for Article 218 to say expressly that this Bill shall be accompanied by a memorandum? We all know that all bills are accompanied by memorandum. But when the Constitution expressly states that a bill shall be accompanied by a memorandum, it is telling something and it becomes constitutional. This idea of saying that it is traditional that memorandum must accompany all bills does not apply to this. This specific bill, the Constitution says must be accompanied by a memorandum. Let me tell ... view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: Let me also support this amendment. It should be noted that we view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Chairlady. view