John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 7151 to 7160 of 7463.

• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, from the Assistant Minister’s answer, I guess that the Government does not have funds to write-off these loans, and since these people were displaced because of the PEV and the substantive Minister is very effective in mobilizing Harambee, can the Ministry consider organizing Harambee to finance these loans instead of writing them off? view
• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: My main reason for supporting the amendment is that in the recent past we have had a lot of issues with the Kenya Airports Authority as a State Corporation. It is even under investigation by the Public Investments Committee. Giving it more powers to have more funds and to re-invest more funds in it would be negligence; so, I would like to support the deletion of this particular provision. view
• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I think the Minister for Trade has misunderstood what Ms. Karua has said. The current situation is being changed by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance. view
• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, but that is what I am explaining! I am saying the Minister has misunderstood Ms. Karua and I am explaining to him so that he can understand. Is it in order for the Minister to misunderstand and misinterpret Ms. Karua’s comments? The current situation is that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collects money, passes it to the Treasury and finally to the KAA. The Minister wants to change that by channeling the money directly and that is why Ms. Karua is saying that since we have not understood the proposal by the Minister, why can ... view
• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. view
• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I was almost giving up. I do not know what is happening! view
• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I think what we are trying to do is to divide the money equally, but the Ministry will still manage it. This idea of discretion and equitability which you are talking about has been there since Independence and we have never seen any change. I want to give you some examples: Recently, the Minister for Public Works who was the acting Minister for Roads even gave an approval that a section of a road in my constituency needed some funding. After that, a very junior officer in that Ministry refused to give me the money. ... view
• 25 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support the Bill. I had a discussion with my friend, Eng. Maina, an argument actually, of the merits of this particular Bill, because I am one of the people who really believe in a free market economy. But after a lengthy discussion I stand here to say that at least this Bill has merits that need to be supported. A perfectly competitive market has an infinite number of buyers and an infinite number of sellers. Let me make it a bit realistic by saying that it has many buyers and many ... view
• 24 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very unfair for the Government to take advantage of people like village elders who are not being paid a salary. If he is aware that those elders worked for eight days and they are being paid for four days, why is the Ministry taking advantage by making them work for free for four days? Is it because there is no money? Why can the Minister not bring a supplementary Budget next year with that amount inside and this Parliament will approve it instead of taking advantage of people who cannot bargain? view
• 24 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. With that assurance, could the Ministry go ahead and pay them now because, normally, they overspend and then bring a Supplementary Budget here later? view