Hon. Fred Gumo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 151 to 160 of 264.

• 29 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Hapana view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: ! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The name of the current Managing Director of TARDA is Mr. Francis Musumba Agoya. He is a Bachelor of Commerce Degree holder. The procedure that was used in the recruitment of the Managing Director was as follows:- (i) The Board of TARDA advertised the vacant position in both the Daily Nation and The Standard newspapers on 3rd February, 2009. A human resource consultant, M/s Manpower Services Limited, was appointed to assist the Board in the recruitment process. A sub-committee comprising of a number of Board members, including the Chairman, ... view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, the TARDA Act empowers the Minister for Regional Development, who is me, to appoint a Managing Director even without any advertisement. Therefore, any regulations that the hon. Member has quoted are not in the law. Secondly, I do not have to advertise. I can even appoint you tomorrow because the law is very clear here. Thirdly, what the hon. Member has said is not true. What happened in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at that time happened before Mr. Agoya was appointed. I have the report which I can give to the House. Therefore, ... view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, these are things that happened 20 years ago. If the hon. Member was aware of this---- Since I was given the three names, I stayed with the information in my office for three months from March up to the other day. There was no complaint or report or anything until the day Mr. Agoya was appointed. That is when they came up with these reports which are not true. All these reports are not true. These things have been made in the streets and brought here. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not aware of the documents that they are referring to. Lay them on the Table so that we can look at them. I am not aware. If there was any complaint, they should have written a letter with regard to the issue earlier to my office or complained to the Board. Why did they have to wait until the appointment was done and the name gazetted so as to bring the issue here? I am not aware of all these documents. Let me look at them. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, I was not aware. Let me peruse the documents because documents can come from any place or anywhere. Let me look at the documents first. They did not even send copies of those documents to me. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me look at the documents first. Would you give me about three weeks? view
• 23 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to find out whether these documents are authentic and that may take a lot of time. view