Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: I want to request the Chairman of the Committee because I think he will be in the mediation panel that we do away with this selection panel completely. The Constitution is express that it is the President’s mandate to nominate the Auditor-General with the approval of the House. So, why do we waste public funds on a selection panel? This is the same process, like I have said that the President uses to appoint Cabinet Secretaries. I really plead with the Chairman that let us do away with this selection panel because it is not necessary. It is just delaying ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to agree with the view of the Committee concerning the Senate Amendments. I support the amendments. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: THAT, clause 41 be amended in paragraph (e) of sub-clause (2), by inserting the words “including statements on processes and systems audit” immediately after the words “of the Auditor-General”. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: I wish to be corrected by the Chair if I am wrong, but this is a House of rules and records. If I remember well because I have been sitting here the whole afternoon, when you proposed that the House do now agree with the Committee in the said report, Hon. Chepkong’a rose on a point of order to draw your attention to the 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
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: fact that the House did not quarate. After you proposed the Question, that is when Hon. Chepkong’a drew your attention to the fact that the House was not properly quarated. So, I am just wondering: Where do we stand? Because you had proposed the Question--- The Question was not actually proposed because Hon. Chepkong’a informed you that there was no quorum. Once you propose the Question for the House to agree with the Committee, it is a chance for Members to bring in snippets of contributions. view
• 30 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I support the Motion for Adjournment. I once again want to take this opportunity to thank the Almighty God and my fellow Committee Members for electing me as the Chairperson of Public Accounts Committee (PAC). I give my pledge to try and work with the team so that we can achieve the expectations of the people of Kenya. This Session of Parliament has been quite eventful for this country. As we go to our various constituencies for one month, let us take upon ourselves to be ambassadors of peace. ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, that amendment is actually part of the amendments that I brought, but were taken over by the Committee. You will notice that this is a very long clause. This clause has subclauses up to 14. Within those subclauses we noticed a lot of typos, for example, in sub-clause 11 the word “appropriate” is repeated twice. We propose to delete that. Under subclause 13, you being a lawyer, you understand that “advert” is a colloquial and the correct English word is “advertisement”. So, we are deleting the word “advert” and replacing it with “advertisement”. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not know where the difficulty is coming from. I am not a lawyer like you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, but recently I heard of an advisory where the LSK was actually cautioning those lawyers who are charging below the stipulated fees. The architects and quantity surveyors are covered by the Architects and Quantity Surveyors Act, Cap.530 of the Laws of Kenya. The engineers are covered by the Engineers Act which was passed in 2011. Section 58 of the Engineers Act says that professional services--- This is something that has been observed over a long ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I wish to second the proposed further amendment by the Leader of the Majority Party. This is because it is a very clever amendment. You realise that if you say “complex and specialized” then you start getting into issues of measuring quality, and quality measurements can be rendered victims of subjective considerations. I think it is a very clever amendment. Even as I second, the Chair of the Committee is aware that my view had been that we should have lowered threshold to Kshs3 billion and not Kshs5 billion. However, it is expressing an ... view