John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I withdraw although with a lot of difficulty. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me withdraw that and be a bit more general. The Executive owes this country an apology. Even as we approve this Procedural Motion, the Executive needs to own up. How come these Bills have all of a sudden found their way to Parliament within one or two days when we only have three days to go and yet we have been pleading with them to give us these Bills for one year. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the only reason I support is because the Executive has messed us up but as I sat here I thought that Kenyans out there are questioning; What is wrong with the leaders? They are singling out the Executive. They include Parliamentarians like me. That is why I feel that we do not have to keep Kenyans waiting any longer, otherwise and the Executive knows, I would have opposed this Procedural Motion because the Executive is becoming rogue. They are pushing us to legislate. I am in the sub- committee that is looking at this Bill that we ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Otherwise, I support. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Even though I did not want to interrupt the hon. Assistant Minister, hon. Kamama, I think we have ventilated on this Bill a little bit. Would I be in order to request that the Mover be called upon to reply, so that we move on to the next issue? view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to also support this Bill. One of the main reasons why Kenyans overwhelmingly voted for the Constitution we have today is because of the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution; that is, Leadership and Integrity. Kenyans wanted a break from the past. We have been disappointed although there was a legislation which was passed in this House in 2003; that is, the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act. So, Kenyans felt that they needed a more elaborate entrenchment of leadership and integrity in the Constitution which then ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I go to the specific provisions of this Bill, I want to say that many Kenyans--- Fortunately, I realized early enough – last year – that we were let down by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). Even though there is nothing wrong with activism, but it is very wrong to have a negative activist in charge of fighting corruption. The person we have in this body is a letdown. I noticed it very early and some people warned me when I said that this guy is a con. We have actually been conned as ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me now come to the provisions of the Bill. I am actually happy that the appointment of the Chairman of the Commission and other commissioners will be done competitively and transparently through a panel appointed by the President and there is a set criteria of how to come up with that panel. What I would like to suggest, and I think this will come through a proposal from our Committee, is that we need to start reducing sizes of our commissions. We do not need to have nine commissioners in every Commission. It is ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the idea of prosecutorial powers came about because of disappointments in the past prosecutions. However, we have made the Office of Director of Public Prosecution independent. Let us allow that office to work. If the person in that office is not able to discharge his duty, let us not run away from our responsibility. We remove him and get someone who can discharge those powers. However, giving one office a lot of powers, there are chances that there will be abuse of power. Suppose you gave the current Director of KACC prosecutorial powers, ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: I want to talk about the appointment of the Secretary. Once the Secretary is appointed by the Commission, the Commission should have powers to either fire him or discipline him as the Commission finds it fit within the set regulations of the law, as hon. Munya said. There is no need to allow the Commission to appoint a Secretary after which, for them to discipline him or her, they would need a tribunal. I think that is an elaborate process that is not necessary. My Chairman talked about staff transition and I also hold that view. I know that there ... view