John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: I also want to touch on austerity measures. I remember that last year, the Budget Committee did what I would call a commendable job in recommending budget cuts. We recommended that we cut on hospitality and things like foreign travels so that we could be able to lower recurrent expenditure and make more money available for delivery of services and development. view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: What did not go well was the fact that even after we had done all this, again, the Government, through Parliament, did the complete opposite by undoing what we did when we passed the main Budget. In the Supplementary Budget, there were requests to increase the expenditure on austerity measures like expenditure on foreign travels and so on. So, it was an exercise in futility. view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would recommend and urge this Parliament to be more vigilant, so that when we make recommendations to reduce expenditure on areas that we thought there would be waste, it is important that we stick to that throughout the year. We should even stop the Executive from increasing expenditure through the Supplementary Budget. Otherwise, we are wasting energy in trying to cut these expenditures. view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other point is about the Rural Electrification Authority (REA). If you want rural areas to develop, we need to provide power to the rural areas. The allocation to the REA has been going down every year. We need to stop this and put more resources to the REA. I believe our Committee has already made the recommendations on how this should be done. view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: My second last point is; how do we increase the percentage of development expenditure as a total percentage of the Budget? It has been Government policy that we increase the development expenditure with a higher percentage compared to the recurrent expenditure. What has happened in the current scenario is that we are increasing the recurrent budget by over 20 per cent and only increasing the development expenditure by 13 per cent. The net effect is that the percentage of recurrent expenditure is going to continue rising as opposed to that of the development expenditure. A country cannot survive on recurrent ... view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: Finally, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, is my pet subject of teachers. Last year, I must say that this House disappointed me because we had made recommendations that we should provide more funds for the employment of teachers. We did not push the Government hard enough to implement that. This year, we have another opportunity. I plead with the House that, this time, we should make sure that we provide enough funds to employ teachers. Building schools, having our children there and saying we have free primary education, when there are no teachers in classrooms is a waste of the future ... view
• 9 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those many remarks, I beg to support. view
• 8 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to know from the Assistant Minister whether a gentleman by the name Abdulahi Ibrahim Ali was ever arrested according to his records. If he was arrested, where is he? view
• 8 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I just wanted to correct the impression that the Question was wrongly referred to the Office of the Vice President. This Question could not be answered by the Minister because he said that they had already forwarded the names to the appointing authority, and the appointing authority had not made the appointment. So, we felt that the office which was closest to the appointing authority was yours, Mr. Vice-President. So, it was rightly referred to your office and that is why the appointment has been made. view
• 8 May 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. In addition to what hon. Dr. Khalwale is asking, I would also want to ask for your ruling very clearly that Article 217 with regard to Division of Revenue Bill and County Allocation Bill have not been suspended and are still in operation. So, from your ruling, it should be very clear so that the Ministry of Finance is aware that those two Bills are required and must be transacted in this House. view