John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 6581 to 6590 of 7480.

• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, sometimes I wonder whether my colleagues really attend Parliament sessions. The report was brought to this House by the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs which adopted the Ligale Report. This is not an issue that we need to debate about. I would urge my colleague to wait for his time and contribute. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: I want to go further and say that the definition of the first review has to be changed. It must be recognized that the first review is the one that was done by the Ligale Commission. That is what we agreed on. I want to urge--- view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a lot of respect for my colleague, but sometimes, you find it a bit--- view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank hon. Keynan. Let me now proceed with my contribution. I would urge my colleagues to wait for their time and make their contributions. What they are raising are actually points of argument. view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, the definition of the “first review” should read: “Delimitation of boundaries of constituencies undertaking by the IIBRC”. We need to be very clear on the issues arising that are mentioned here. I want to add that the resources that this Commission is supposed to employ are primarily the Ligale Commission Report and secondly, the report of the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. We need to remove “any other” because this brings ambiguity. We need to be very categorical. If you look at the Constitution, there is no other Commission that ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to go to my third point. When we discussed the Draft Bill, we did recognise that, first, Kriegler was very categorical on some of the issues which brought problems in the electoral process. He did say that we need to give capacity to the Secretariat. So, when I hear my colleagues condemning the Minister for giving more powers to the Secretariat, then it comes to my mind that probably we have not read the Kriegler Report properly. This is the case and yet we adopted the Kriegler Report in this House, which suggested ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Secondly, when we were discussing the issue of continuity, we did agree in Naivasha – and I want to repeat again – that we need to save and transit the Secretariat. Why am I saying this? If you look at Section 41A of the former Constitution, you will find it very clear. The role of the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC), among the seven proposals, was to set up a strong Secretariat. Having done that, we cannot again throw away the Secretariat. Therefore, we need to carry forward the employees of the IIEC, because we have employed most of them ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the selection panel. Some colleagues have said that commissioners should not be appointed by one person. However, if you look at the way the selection panel is supposed to be appointed, you will find that it has given powers exclusively to the President. This is not what we discussed. In Naivasha, we said that this is a political process and let us be as inclusive as possible. We gave this function to political parties based on their strength in the House. Let everyone feel involved. Let the PNU Coalition as ... view
• 26 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my second last point is with regards to the appointment of employees. If we look at schedule 10(3), the employment of employees is pegged on the approved budget. I have an issue with that. This should be based on an establishment because the Constitution is clear that all constitutional commissions shall be allocated adequate resources to undertake their functions. Therefore, we should not peg appointment of employees to this Commission on the approved budget. We should have an establishment and the Commission should ask for allocation of the budget. Finally, there is the issue of ... view
• 21 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker Sir, the Assistant Minister says in areas where there are not enough candidates who scored a Grade of “C” Plain, they will go down until they get the best minimum grade. However, the advert is very clear; the minimum requirement is grade “C” plain. How will they get the others with lower grades? How will they anticipate that there will not be an adequate number with “C” grade, so that other youth with lower grades will make themselves available at the recruitment centres? view