Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you are deleting interest but we did not delete it. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I beg your pardon--- 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
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I beg your pardon, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Yes. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman that was my amendment. If you look at Clause 151, where goods and services in sub-section 2 are of technical nature, we have the words “professionals engaged” to work on behalf of the accounting officer. I support that amendment. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, what Hon. Sakaja has done is commendable. For a long time, we have been even embarrassed to accept that in Kenya, Kenyans should come first. When we were doing the National Construction Authority Act, one of the most embarrassing moments that I have had is when a senior Government official called me in the middle of the night to tell me that if we did what Hon. Sakaja is trying to do, we were going to chase away foreigners from Kenya. Honestly, I felt so ashamed. Through what we did jointly with Hon. Sakaja, we are ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: I thank Hon. Sakaja. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is a very important amendment because we have seen the carelessness with which some of the practitioners in this country treat our people. If somebody has followed what my good sister has said about the series about Owino Uhuru, you sometimes want to ask yourself if we are truly independent. What that series has portrayed is actually a premeditated murder. Somebody is just killing our people in the name of pursuing profit. I support. view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I tend to disagree with the Member for Rongai. Tender processing in Kenya has been brought to disrepute by buccaneers and brokers whose main aim is to frustrate the process. A lot of them go there with frivolous excuses. In fact, in one of his addresses recently, the President had suggested that people who try to delay the tender process merely for purposes of frustrating the process should be permanently barred. There are a lot of brokers who run around in town and they do not even have the capacity to do the project. They run ... view
• 29 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: with Government projects. So, unless we make this process so that somebody sees that he has merit---This was my amendment. I will plead with the Member for Rongai to allow this thing to go through so that we get rid of these jokers who lock down tendering processes just for the purposes of trying to delay the process. view