John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I agree, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to thank the Mover of this Bill, Eng. Maina. I would also like to allay fears the Minister is putting across. The Bill has a definition of essential goods. So the Minister should not be worried. There is a definition of the goods whose prices we want controlled. I think it is clear that this Bill came as a result of the frustration of many Kenyans and Members of Parliament because prices of essential goods were sky rocketing and the Government was doing absolutely nothing. Therefore, I agree with Ms. Karua that ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support the amendment to this Motion. A few days ago, the Chair reprimanded the membership of this House for taking our job casually by not taking a keen interest in the Budget. We were reminded, and rightly so, that it is a very important responsibility that we should not play around with. I fully agree with that reprimand. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: As we approve any money to the Ministries, we should be sure of what we are doing. We are in the same position we were last year because last year, we reprimanded the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. We told him that it was unacceptable to just come up with a straight line arithmetic by dividing the budgeted amount by two and asking us for approval. We felt then that this is laziness on the part of the Treasury. We told the Treasury that that was the last time that we were doing that and that next time, ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. With that assurance, I proceed. We want to be preventive and not curative. We want to handle things before they happen. Before this explanation of Kshs59 billion is given, we cannot approve 50 percent. We need to be cautious because in accounts, there is a law we call prudence. We have to be prudent and give only the bare minimum we could. Actually, we have been very generous to give you a quarter of the expenditure. So, Mr. Minister, please, be comfortable with our 25 percent but next time, we plead with you, ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: I beg to support. view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, usually, I like supporting the reports of Committees of Parliament, because they are part of us, but I have a difficulty in supporting this Report. Actually, I have to oppose it. Why do I say so? If you look at the recommendations of the Committee, they talk about violation of the law. If you read the entire Report, there is nowhere they have cited the specific provisions of law that were violated. As a House, I believe it is important that if you are making recommendations, especially touching on a major decision as this one, ... view
• 23 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. Nyamweya has presented documents here with regard to the Bomas Conference, but these documents are so bulky. I would have wished that we benefitted from the information that he has, because he has only said that “he mishandled”, but I do not think this House will find time to read these documents and see how Mr. Lumumba mishandled that conference. Could we benefit from the information that he has by him telling us, in a summary, how he did mishandle the Bomas Conference? view
• 22 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir--- view
• 22 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to also support the Bill before us, that is the Counter- Trafficking in Persons Bill, 2010. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me also to congratulate Ms. Odhiambo for coming up with this well thought out Bill that I think is timely. I think that, as a House, we need to support the hon. Member who has come up with this wonderful idea. The majority victims – as others have said before – of this trafficking in persons are actually people who cannot ... view