John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member should realize that I am not discussing the operations of the NSIS. What I am asking is why there is that big increase. If the Minister cannot explain it here, publicly, he can still choose to explain it to the Committee of the House in camera. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: I am not talking about the operations of the NSIS. I do not understand why in midstream he can increase the Budget for NSIS by Kshs1 billion, unless this money is meant for something that the Government wants to hide from this country. This money is unnecessary. I would caution Members of Parliament that we need to be very careful when we are passing Budgets. Let us not just pretend that some Ministries cannot be probed. That it is important to hide. We cannot hide public funds. We have to explain them. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will urge the Government to always be careful when they are making provisions. There is something that is very important. You know, when the Minister presented his Budget, he is on record telling this House that there would be austerity measures that he would introduce to ensure that they cut down on certain costs of hospitality, training, foreign and domestic travel. However, if you look across all Ministries, you will realize that foreign travel, domestic travel and training have all gone up. Was the statement that the Minister gave to this House just a ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is also something that I wanted the Minister to explain. Under the Ministry of Finance, you will realize that this country is investing in African Re-insurance Corporation, additional funds; Kshs159 million. I know that sometimes it is a legal requirement, but why should we prioritise that now? Can you explain to this House why we have to invest in equity participation in foreign financial institution? view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Finally, the absorption rates of capital expenditure are very low. I want to ask the Ministry and more particularly the Treasury, do we have a department in that Ministry that is tracking down the reporting system by Ministries and Government agencies? The main reason why donors, probably, are not giving us money is because they realized that the absorption rate is only 31.5 per cent, yet the absorption of the Government of Kenya funds is at 82 per cent. The reporting system by Ministries and Government agencies is deficient. Why is this so? If Ministries and Government agencies have no ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I oppose the Motion. view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Minister has repeated twice about 260 constituencies. Could we get clarification on this? view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will forgive the Minister because he was born in Coast Province and I was born and grew up along the shores of Lake Victoria. All along this ban has never been there until recently. There was fish and in plenty. O mena, Nile Perch and Tilapia were there. Instead of the Government spending too much money under the Economic Stimulus Package to establish ponds in some regions thereby killing our fishing industry, why can it not use the same resources to construct a bridge over Mbita Causeway which interferes with the movement of fish? Why can ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I just want to ask for your direction regarding this matter. This is based on what the Assistant Minister has answered with regard to Mr. Nyamweya’s question. I just want to read the court’s decision. The last paragraph says:- “No evidence has been tendered by the prosecution to show that the accused intended to permanently deprive his employer of what rightly belonged to the company.” It goes ahead to say: “Shoddy investigations were done and the accused speedily called before court merely on instructions from above.” The court goes ahead to say ... view
• 29 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: But--- view