Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Generally, I am concerned about the efforts that are being made to educate the general populace on what to do and how to identify what Ebola would be. I think public awareness is very weak. These are things that the Government can do. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other day my eight-year-old son was trying to educate me on how to identify somebody who has Ebola and I asked him how he got to know this. It looks like it is an initiative that is coming from the school where he goes but we do not see that much initiative coming from the Government. To that extent, we are letting ourselves down and this brings the question; to what extent are we prepared to deal with this disease? view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks, I want to support the Motion for Adjournment. I urge our country to improve on the level of disaster preparedness in general. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. 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
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to join the rest of the country in sending my own messages of condolences and that of the people of Rarieda to the family of this great Kenya, an academic giant. I only managed to meet Prof. Mazrui once, but even before I met him, I had become an ardent reader of the many informative opinion pieces he penned in our dailies from time to time. I got the privilege to share an audience with him when he delivered a very famous Jaramogi Oginga Odinga lecture at the Laico Regency Hotel ... view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: lifetime, I do not believe this great son of Kenya was accorded the honour he deserved even in death. When Prof. David Wasawo died, I would have expected that the highest levels of leadership in this country would have sent their messages of condolences. I listened but I did not hear any. As I speak, one of the sportswomen of this country who has brought great joy to our households; Conjestina Achieng’, is a nervous wreck. These kinds of realities paint quite a shadow on the way we recognise our heroes. Only last week, one of the very few soccer ... view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Some two years ago, I had a very interesting encounter with a child whom I had known to be of very little education. He came to me and introduced himself as a financial literacy expert. When I asked him what “financial literacy” meant, he claimed to be able to advise me on how best I could utilise the finances I had to maximize on The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be ... view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: returns. I found it a bit ludicrous, because to the best of my knowledge, this fellow had never done any business studies and he had no financial background, least of all, he was someone I knew to have had very little schooling. The reason why this was happening the way it did is because of a lacuna in law which is allowing it to be everybody’s fair game. In that respect, this Bill is very timely because if you look at the Memorandum and Articles of Association of this Bill, it gives the broad outlines of what the Bill intends ... view
• 21 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, one of the biggest problems we have had as a country is to deal with conflicts over tangible wealth. Right now you are aware we have a very longstanding dispute regarding a major piece of land in the capital city. I think it is time that we disabused the notion of Kenyans that to be wealthy you have to own land a quarter the size of Kenya. view