Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, some say that ranking discriminates against the poor. Nothing could be further from the truth. For instance, yours truly the Member for Rarieda was the only student in school who had no shoes and yet he is here. Today if--- view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, today one of the legacies I am most proud of is the fact that in the days that we did A-Levels at the famous Cardinal Otunga High School, we were ranked among the top schools. After that ranking, our headteacher called us and said: “You have conquered Kenya. Now go and conquer the world.” If we are here today, it is from that ranking. Yes, I have heard what has been said. Currently, we do not have a policy on ranking. However, that is what this House is for. I would wish to propose to my ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, he is still a rookie; probably, he does not understand. view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: This is a ranking Member. This is a different Motion. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion, which is an important one. I want to encourage my good friend, brother and a colleague in--- view
• 18 Mar 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 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I want to encourage my good friend, brother and colleague to go a step further. The idea of this Motion is to try to control the menace of alcohol and drug abuse in our country. I would want him to go a step further, so that from this Motion, we either pass an Act of Parliament or amendments to existing Acts of Parliament, particularly the NACADA Act, so that these good points that we are discussing can be taken care of and be converted into statutes that can be implemented. In this Parliament, I have been reluctant to bring Motions ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am not criticising anybody but the only way we can realize the good intentions of this Motion is if we convert it into an Act of Parliament, either by amending the existing laws or creating a new law that can take all these good ideas onboard. I say this because the issue of alcohol and drug abuse is now reaching crisis proportions in our country, particularly among the youth. Recently, a report was released; I think it was yesterday. I read in newspapers that in fact this matter is getting out of hand. Honestly, we ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Sometimes when we do strengths, weaknesses, opportunites and threats (SWOT) analysis it is not for the purposes of criticism, it is for seeing where you are coming from, where you are, where you want to go and how you intend to get there. We have now reached a point where we must ask ourselves to what extent agencies fighting alcoholism and drug abuse in our country have succeeded. This is not intended to be a criticism. We cannot be investing huge sums of money in these agencies yet these things are seemingly getting out of control. The question to be ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: From where I sit, most of the interventions that have been taken particularly by NACADA tend to be reactive. When we talk of rehabilitation centres, we are already talking about somebody who has been affected. Why can we not look at the possibility of redesigning the whole approach with a view to preventing alcoholism? As the old saying goes, prevention is always better than cure and in more cases than one, it is always cheaper than to cure. For this Motion to have come here, hon. Kigo Njenga must have engaged with the people we have put in charge of ... view
• 18 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: It worries me when every time and again NACADA engages in seminars and travels. Is it not time we asked ourselves to what extent NACADA has spent their budget on the substantive work of fighting alcohol and drug abuse. This thing is subtle. Some of us might be sitting here thinking that we are very safe. The other day I was called to my children’s school. I have teenage children who are in school. In my mind, they are very okay. When they sit near me, they appear to be very okay; they look like disciplined citizens. I was surprised ... view