Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I will support this amendment but plead with the Departmental Committee Chair that we propose a further amendment to Clause (g) to read “where a representative from the consumer federation with expertise in fisheries”. You do not want to nominate somebody merely because they are from consumer federation and yet, they do not have expertise in fisheries. I will plead with the Departmental Chair to include a further amendment in Clause (g) to include a representative from consumer federation with expertise in fisheries, nominated by the National Consumer Federation. view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. This is a very good amendment. Even in my contribution, I had suggested that I would be bringing my amendment. The only thing that I am concerned with is that the amendments to this Bill have been rather rushed. We did this Bill last week and some of us had not been notified that the amendments were being taken. I support. view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: The explanations he has given look okay. But, I just want to understand why the Committee is proposing the deletion of paragraph (d) which says “the Principal Secretary in the State department for the time being responsible for the matter relating to devolved government.” I do not understand the rationale for that. In your explanation when the Question was proposed you did not explain why. Could you kindly be on the HANSARD as to why you think that amendment is necessary? view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not have a problem with the proposal by the Committee, but I have a problem with this requirement for 10 years’ experience. Why do we require 10 years’ experience for this office? I wish I could persuade the Chairperson of the Committee to reduce it to five years. Some of us happen to have started our businesses when we were young. I had only come out of the university three to four years and the person who registered my company had left the university the same year as me. The company is still running ... view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support this amendment. Even as I support it, I think the Committees and the leadership of the House are being unfair to Members. This is because some of us were actually on the process of preparing amendments to this Bill. It will be important if we are notified. We did the Second Reading of this Bill only last week. This Bill and the Business Registration Service Bill were done last week. Sometimes, if you do not know the timelines, then you really could not give your priorities. Even as we give powers to the Cabinet ... view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, it is not even a question of semantics but could the Leader of the Majority Party explain to us what he means by “livestock zones”? I know he is a pastoralist and probably, more of his heart than his head is with livestock. Can he tell us what he means? view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not understand because if you delete what this amendment is proposing to delete, what becomes of that Clause. You will have a clause with sub- clauses that has no introduction at all. Is that a good way to make laws? Just consider the import of deleting the words “unless otherwise provided for in this Article or any other written law”. So, we are going to have Clause 6(a) which will have no subtitle. It does not make sense. I believe that the Leader of the Majority Party has to make this amendment to make ... view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not have a problem per se, but I am just wondering on the question of infiniteness of latitude. If we are talking of any other function as maybe directed by the board, are you not also including an element of infinity? Would there be a neater way to make it finite because this is infinite. view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: I am speaking to Clause 11. view
• 25 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, he has proposed an amendment to add Sub-clause 11 (q) which is any other functions as per--- view