Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: One of the problems we have had is that people who want to get into entrepreneurship have had to come to Nairobi to get their businesses registered. In consonance with the fact that we are now a devolved system of government, we should very boldly say that the registration of business service should actually have offices in the counties so that those people who want to register their businesses in the counties can do so. view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: I am concerned with the administration of this Service. If you look at the Board of Directors of the Service, it is top heavy in terms of the input of civil servants. You have the Attorney-General, the Principal Secretary (PS) in the ministry responsible for matters relating to 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
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: trade, the PS in the State Department relating to Devolved Government and the PS of the National Treasury. It is generally agreed that, as much as possible, let us remove Government from the business of businesses as it were. In my view, if we have almost half of the Board being Government, we are going to end up with a very pliant Board that can easily be micro-managed from elsewhere and whose decisions might not be independent and may be as a result of something that has been decided before-hand. The method of the qualification and nomination of those four ... view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Clause 5 (2) says:- “The Chairperson and members of the Board shall be appointed by the Cabinet Secretary (CS).” It brings in another problem. If you look at the general theme and the way this Bill is framed, we are giving too many powers to the CS. The CS should do this and that. We are going to end up with a service which basically exists at the beck and call of the CS. I do not think that is what we intend to do. We have known that part of the problem we have had as a country, which ... view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I agree with my good friend, Hon. Neto Oyugi on the provisions of Clause 9 (3). When you say that the Board may co-opt any person to attend any of its meetings, this is a blanket cheque. What are the qualifications and under what circumstances? You already have a Board. Clearly, as a House, we will be failing very dismally if we have established a Board, but we still enact a law that, in itself, portrays the fact that we have no confidence in the Board to the point that the Board, as it deems fit, ... view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: provisions of Article 232 of our Constitution so that inclusivity becomes a way of life in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support but I will bring some amendments. I thank you. view
• 18 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Finance Bill, 2015. If you look at the history of parliaments, they exist primarily to justify the fact that no country can exist without tax. In fact, the history of parliament came from the fact that people rose and said that they cannot be taxed without representation. To that extent, it is a bit of a disappointment that we are discussing this important Bill and the House is almost empty. But I guess many of our colleagues, in one way or the other, will find time ... view
• 18 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: 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
• 18 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we must move to boldly look at apprentices from middle level technical colleges, institutions and even diploma colleges. We are putting too much focus on university education. I appreciate that university education plays a key role in our society, but we have many youth who drop out of school at Class Eight and at Form Four; those who do not make it to university. We must also give the incentive even to those who come out of colleges and technical training institutions so that they may also be considered. view
• 18 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: I have noticed that the proposed amendments to the Banking Act to increase capitalisation is not good, in my view. We need as many parts of this country to be banked. We have had experiences with Equity Bank and Family Bank. We should encourage as many of our small banks as possible because what we are going to see, if this amendment goes through, is that many of the small banks will definitely collapse. We are now going to start having a situation where only a select few will be taking part in providing this vital public service and with ... view