Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Secondly, as has been said eloquently by my colleagues, I think the word view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: ” is synonymous with the name “Kenya”. You cannot try to destroy a good cause merely because of one or two instances of people misusing the same. view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: As has been said very well by my colleague, hon. Florence Kajuju, we should be told when we give for a worthy cause what is unethical, or what is corrupt about it. As long as that cannot be said, it is impossible. In fact, I will say that, that advisory definitely must be in vain. This is because it is not implementable. We come across emergencies all the time and if we have to rush to the President to give us an authorization, we will not be doing anything else. view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: So, I agree with my colleagues that that advisory is in vain; it is the sort of advisory that we collectively, as a House, must ignore. view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. I personally think that the Committee on General Oversight is an excellent idea which should be supported by all. Those opposed to it are probably doing so largely for personal reasons other than legal reasons. It may also be out of ignorance on the way Parliament works. In my mind, the question of competence and confidence must also be at play here. Hon. Speaker, you will recall that some of the Cabinet Secretaries whom we have today had no notable experience in the management of public affairs prior to being ... view
• 14 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I also think that it is wrong to hide behind the misunderstanding of the operations of Parliament and its Committees to address Members and the Speaker in a condescending manner, as has been done from some quarters. Hon. Speaker, I have seen it here before and I want to say it again that there is no school or university which teaches experience. It is something that you earn on account of doing what you are doing over the passage of time. Therefore, it is utter vanity for anybody to claim to be an expert at something they know nothing about. ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to thank all the hon. Members who have voted “Ayes” for the amendment that we have just passed. Probably what was lost to most hon. Members is that the membership of NSSF as it stands now is about 2.5 million, out of whom public sector workers are just about 700,000. So, the majority of them come from the private sector. So, what we have done is still in conformity with the quantum of the membership of NSSF and this House needs to be commended. Those of us who have voted “No” we have exercised our democratic ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to lend my voice to this Motion of Adjournment. As I support it, I think on Tuesday a very important event happened in our country. It was that the President and our leader of CORD met at the burial of the former Minister, Dr. Njoroge Mungai, in Kikuyu. That the President extended an olive branch to our leader is, I think, something that we need to embrace. We on both sides of the House are obligated to do the same. It is a fact that Kenya moves forward every time ... view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as I conclude, as an engineer I am of the view that some of the most difficult problems in our society can be solved through very simple means. I encourage all Members of this Assembly to particularly think about the first three lines of the preamble to our Constitution. It says:- view