Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I stand guided. I read Article 114, which I am conversant with and my understanding was that in essence, we are not really appropriating. We are just re-allocating from one Vote to another. I understood you to mean that being a Motion, it could be amended. The direction, which I am kindly asking you to give me is: At what point? Looking at where we are now, it is possible that we are going to conclude debate on this Motion. I am just wondering what then would happen to this amendment. It is an amendment which concerns quite ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I sat here the whole morning and I got this response just before 1.00 p.m. So, it was not even possible to consult. I would have loved to see my good friend, hon. Mutava Musyimi, but I got it just before we broke for the morning Session. That is why I find my hands tied. What do I do with it? We are likely to conclude debate on this Motion and I have this amendment, which I believe will benefit the Members. But I just do not know what to do. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I thought you would approve it, unfortunately. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you. This is a very good amendment. It is very pragmatic. The only thing that the proposer of this amendment can do is, maybe, look at how practicality can be dealt with in the regulations. If you can look at a way to deal with these issues and the challenges that the Members are citing through regulations, it will be easy taking into consideration what hon. Gladys Wanga and hon. Rotino have said. It is a good amendment. I do not think it would be good to just oppose it because of the difficulty in implementing it. I support. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I quite agree with you that it should go that way. The only problem that I was seeing is, of course, I got some technical help from our clerks on those insertions. The only thing I was requesting is if we could get the latitude to discuss this with the Committee because I really think it is important that the Committee is seized of this proposal that we are making. That is the only latitude. I am aware that if it is read as it is now we are going to conclude debate and we will not have ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to explain. I wish hon. Members could just listen. They hold their horses. I want to assure hon. Members - and hon. (Eng.) Mahamud will agree with me - that, as engineers, our lives revolve around numbers. So, I cannot mislead people on numbers. Those figures appeared many, but they are not. It is the figure Kshs3 billion which is moving. It is the wording which says that the National Treasury be allocated an additional Kshs3 billion for public hearings. I deleted that. If you go to the Schedule at the ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: the first column, which was initially Kshs56 billion and it becomes Kshs59 billion. Then you move it to the total, which was initially Kshs79 billion and it becomes Kshs82 billion. When you move to the note which was allocating Kshs5.5 billion, you add Kshs3 billion and it becomes Kshs8.5 billion. On the other note which was allocating Kshs2 billion, you add Kshs3 billion and it becomes Kshs5 billion. It is only numbers moving. There is nothing else. In short, the net effect is that I am allocating it, so that we can move it from the allocation and we take ... view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 11 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: seconded. view