Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: That second stage of the public finance cycle is where you effect the enabling legislation to implement what is designed in the Budget and that is where you have the Appropriation Bill and the Finance Bill. Once that is done, the proposals are presented to the various arms of Government; the Executive, Judiciary and Parliament to implement which is now the implementation stage. Finally, you have the public audit stage which is really an interrogation into the fulfillment of the objectives of the Budget. What we are looking at now is the second stage of the public finance cycle. An ... view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: Budget-making process and utilisation of public finance is a key obligation for us as elected leaders. When you look at it in detail, the Government has no money. The owners of all money that the Government uses are the public and in this case, we are talking about the Kenyan public. Our obligation as lawmakers is to be gatekeepers in ensuring and giving the guarantee to the Kenyan people that the money that the Government raises from them is used for the specific objectives that are intended. So, this second stage is very important because and it is justified by ... view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: groups, the young people. I would like to propose an amendment as we go into the Third Reading of this Bill so that we also talk about the issue of age limit and this should cover cases even when we are using gambling machines or when we are using digital and online betting platforms to undertake betting, lotteries and gambling. Having said that, I do not want to go into each of the provisions on the taxes and revenues that have been proposed. This year, as you may well know, I happen to have the privilege to sit as the ... view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: Going back to where I started, the budget-making process is nothing more than a covenant with the people. One of the key cogs of that covenant is the guarantee of any Government to feed its people. Anybody who has been keen on my contributions in this House since I had the privilege to step into this august House for the first time on 15th January 2008, must have noticed that I have been very consistent and indeed it is an underlying, almost principle that you cannot aim to be a developed nation when every year you have to hold out ... view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Sir. On harvesting, if you decided that 99 per cent should run to waste and harvest just 1 per cent of the water that God gives us every year in this country, like I said, every individual, not household, will be guaranteed of 500 litres of water. The daily needs of every individual, including bathing, washing clothes and even flushing toilets, is just 50 litres. That leaves us with an extra 450 litres. That means that it is possible for every household in Kenya to benefit from an irrigation scheme based on rain water. To put it into ... view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: precipitation is 1,500 millimetres or 30 times that of Yemen, the main source of water in rain. Yemen is a desert, but Kenya is not a desert. Therefore, it has to be amazing and indeed unacceptable that 60 years down the road, we have not made rain water harvesting mandatory for every household, and for every house built in Kenya. Why can this not be done? Why can county governments and the national Government not have it as a policy? I can tell you those who have tried it, it has worked. This is a simple, achievable and realistic cure ... view
• 16 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on behalf PAC, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: view
• 16 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: The Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the Special Audit Report of May 2016 on the Accounts of the National Youth Service (NYS), Volume I and Volume II. view
• 16 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 16 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the Public Accounts Committee, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the Special Audit of May 2016 on the Accounts of the National Youth Service (NYS) Volumes I and II laid on the Table of the House today, Thursday, March 16th 2017. view