John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: We have no capacity as a House to even amend it, not even a comma. So, why should the Committee? view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: It comes because the Constitution says so. You know this Hon. ole Sankok is developing a very bad habit. He shouts even at his seniors in this House; people he should be listening to, to learn from. These are people who have been elected many times like me. I want to request Hon. ole Sankok… I know he has only been elected once and we had to massage some votes for him. He was elected Chairman of Students Organisation of Nairobi University (SONU) but we know what we did for him to become the Chairman of SONU. So, I just ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is a Procedural Motion. For the first time, we are going to debate on a Bill that has the effect of actualising Article 257 of the Constitution. Therefore, it is not just any other Bill. That is why we are requesting that Members be given a little bit more time to be able to prosecute issues that they want to prosecute for record purposes and for history. This is because several years from today, Kenyans and even other people will make reference on what was actually said about this Bill. So, I do not want ... view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. In trying to comply with Articles 217 and 218 of the Constitution, the people of Kenya decided to create those articles to help divide revenue between the two levels of Government; the national and county governments. view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: In the year 2021/2022, as the Chair of the Committee who has moved the Motion has ably put it, the Government is projecting to collect upwards of Kshs1.775 trillion. Out of this, Kshs370 billion will go to counties as sharable revenue and Kshs6.8 billion is going to the Equalization Fund. The first question one would ask is: Every year, we vote for the Equalization Fund, but it has never been actualised. view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: So, this Committee is calling upon the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, who is responsible for the administration and management of this Fund to ensure that those issues that have not been resolved around the Equalisation Fund are quickly addressed because this is a Fund that has a sunset clause. If the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Bill was not there, we would have barely nine years to the end of the life of this Fund and so, something needs to be done. view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The sharable revenue that goes to the national Government is Kshs1.358 trillion. Looking at the sharable revenue that is going to counties compared to the constitutional provision of the last audited and approved revenue based on the last audited and approved accounts, which is the year ending 2016, is 27 per cent. However, that is why I think BBI has come in handy because we keep on referring to historical figures and data of 2015/2016 when we already have audited accounts for 2018/2019. view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Something else that needs to be mentioned is that the Chairman has alluded to it that we have the Executive as in agreement with the county governments to convert and commute funds that were originally or in the previous years treated as conditional grants to sharable revenue. I think this is in realisation that the Government cannot collect enough revenue to meet the enhanced revenue requests. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the question that, therefore, begs and which needs to be addressed is when you convert the Roads Maintenance Levy of Kshs9.4 billion, which is the 15 per cent of the levy going to counties and this money has been religiously gone to counties… When you convert it to sharable revenue, you are giving counties a blank cheque to use it as they so wish. Therefore, the net effect is that our roads may have a challenge in being maintained. How sure are we that county governments are going to be responsible enough? The county assemblies in conjunction with ... view
• 11 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Something else we need to talk about is the projection of revenue. The Government is projecting to collect Kshs1.7756 trillion. How realistic is this. This is a question that the Budget and Appropriations Committee is concerned about. Chances are that we are not likely to collect beyond Kshs1.5 trillion this financial year. This means there will be a shortfall of over Kshs200 billion. This will be shouldered by the national Government which is remaining with Kshs1.39 trillion. If you take into consideration the possible revenue shortfall, then you are going to collect not more than Kshs1.1 trillion. This is the ... view