Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1661 to 1670 of 3504.

• 10 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the matter of death-row inmates is actually a matter that this House and this country must pronounce itself on. In the last Parliament, I raised this matter because one of the problems that we have with the correctional system is that we have many people who have been convicted on death- row sitting in our prisons leading to congestion among other problems. Some of those are the problems that we have been having with crimes being committed from prisons. This is even a problem with the prison authorities. I have had conversations with the prison authorities and the ... view
• 10 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as I was saying, this House must pronounce itself on this matter. It is true that once they have been convicted to hang, this causes a lot of anxiety and congestion in our prisons. The burden they exert on our prison system is enormous. The Petition is timely and the House should pronounce itself on it. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I wish to thank the Acting Leader of the Majority Party for outlining the programme that will come before the House next week. In the programme that the Acting Leader of the Majority Party has outlined, one of the Bills slated for Third Reading is the Public Audit Bill. I have a number of amendments, in fact, about 50 of them, and it has taken me almost two weeks to prepare them. I am raising this concern because, when we did the Election Financing Bill, I made several amendments but the Committee considered them without inviting ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to second the Motion as moved by hon. Kajwang’. This request is really timely and, as a House, we need to rise to the occasion, seize it and look at some of the deficiencies in our Standing Orders. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, being privileged to have sat in the last Parliament, I think that some of the carry forwards of our Standing Orders from the last Parliament are not helpful. I have in mind an example of Standing Order No. 33, which is on the Motion for Adjournment. This Standing Order has ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: People talk but no action is taken. It is an opportunity for us to reinforce these Standing Orders, so that we can use the Motion for Adjournment to come up with a decision of the House to bind the Executive to act on certain things. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when hon. Kajwang’ was moving, he said that hon. Members who may have other suggestions can present them. That is the line that I want to take. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, but hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am just trying to look at the other aspects. I have also looked at a matter we have spoken about here that committees are mandated to look into reports. They can and are allowed to table reports within 48 hours of a resolution being made but we have not made a decision. If you look at the Standing Orders, they do not say how long a report of a Committee will take to be debated once it is tabled in the House. I think these are some of the deficiencies that we need ... view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: should change. We should change the Standing Orders to make it mandatory to elect chairpersons of committees every two years. With those remarks, I second. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. view
• 5 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. This is a good amendment as has been moved by hon. Sakaja. As we go into regulations, what I have seen in procurement for the young people is that it provides very good laws but we, again, bring pitfalls. For instance, when you say that 30 per cent belong to the young but you ask them to give bank guarantees and insurance bonds, which are very expensive, how do you help them? As we go into making of regulations, these are the kinds of things that we need to clean up. More importantly, the ... view