John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5501 to 5510 of 7480.

• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I felt that I should have said that because I saw the Attorney-General who did not believe in what he was saying. But let me go to the fundamentals of what is being discussed this afternoon. view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I think what we need to ask ourselves and that is what hon. Imanyara raised, is whether this House can proceed to debate and take a vote on a memorandum that we feel is strongly based on wrong premise of the law. The gist of the memorandum is to try to question the amendments that this House made and which the President is talking about restructuring the Provincial Administration. He goes ahead to say that this is the function of national Government and by extension, trying to explain to us that Parliament is not a national Government. view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, if there is no wrong interpretation of the law, I think that is the worst interpretation of the law and we cannot proceed on the basis of misrepresentation of the law by the President. What we are asking the Chair to do is to find that the Motion before us that we are supposed to debate is based on wrong premise of the law. I just want to take the House to Article 239 which says at 239(5):- view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: “The National security organs are subordinate to civilian authority” view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Chairman, Sir, my understanding of this is that, civilian authority at the County Government is exercised under the Governor. If you have subjected or subordinated the security organs to his authority, then you cannot say he cannot Chair or that he has no role to play in security. view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: The argument that was brought by the Government about the people of Kenya and consultation, I want to remind the Attorney-General that the sovereignty of the people of Kenya is actually the first Article of this Constitution. It says that all sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya. But it goes ahead to say that that power can be exercised either directly or indirectly through democratically elected representatives. There is no democratically elected representative organ of this country superior to Parliament. view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to contribute to this Bill. This is a very important Bill. It cannot be overemphasized the importance of public finance management law in this country. I think this is a Bill that should have come to this House even earlier. I have a number of comments to make on this Bill. First of all, it is my understanding that when the Government--- view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Could they go and sit behind, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I had just started by saying that this is a very important Bill. I think it would be important if hon. Members listened to some of our contributions. Truly, if we do not get this law right then public financial management in this country will be a problem. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to say that this Bill has a lot of strong points. This Bill, as it is, has been a product of extensive consultation most of which I have attended, no doubt. Therefore, I ... view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I want to start by saying that looking at the Bill, I thought we would give more clarity on the functions of the national treasury. The functions of the national treasury are so important and key that we cannot leave them to generalities. We need to be clear as to who is supposed to do what. We need to assign functions to various offices so that we are sure who is supposed to do what. view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is also important to mention that I am a bit disturbed that this Bill has a lot of provisions which I feel are contrary to the provisions of the Constitution. I want to mention three instances. The first one is the issue of public participation and the role of Parliament in the budget making process. If you look at Article 221(5) of the Constitution, it puts it very clearly that once the Executive arm of the Government has come up with estimates of revenue and expenditure, those should be submitted to Parliament two months before ... view