Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the second amendment is very important. This report, as it is actually covers only Nairobi and Mombasa. A question must then be asked: Does Nicholas Gumbo sitting in Nairobi have more value in terms of his life than the peasant farmer in Rarieda, the pastoralist in Garissa or the coffee farmer in Murang’a? The answer is “No”. We may succeed in fortifying Nairobi and Mombasa by installing this system in Nairobi and Mombasa. However, that might also make the terrorists to direct their activities to other parts of the country. So, my second recommendation is that the Government ... view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: If you fortify Nairobi and Mombasa and leave out the rest of the country, that will be equated to exporting terror to outlying parts of Kenya. In my view, that would be unconstitutional. It is very important that even as we recommend--- view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. Of course, hon. Lentoimaga knows that I have extremely a lot of respect for him. But he knows that the report that we are debating talks about security surveillance of Nairobi and Mombasa. What is wrong if we put it in this report that after the pilot project, we go to the rest of the country? That is all I am asking. view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Lentoimaga knows that he comes from outlying areas of Kenya. Unless he wants to admit here that the lives of his people in Samburu are less valuable than the lives of the people in Nairobi, he should have no difficult in supporting this. My fifth amendment reads as follows:- “THAT, the Government ensures the implementation of the project leads to full automation of all related processes, including back office operation and the recording, retrieval and storage of information in the occurrence book.” view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we have an automatic system which will be recording and helping to track down the terrorists. However, it will not come to much if, at the end of the day, things like recordings in the OB and retrieval of data are still done manually. We will be having one side which is digital and another one which is extremely analogue! 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
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I urge the House to consider the amendments that I have proposed which are really meant to enrich the report and approve them. I request hon. Mwangangi, the Member for the great people of Yatta, to second my amendments. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, a while back I raised the matter of the plight of former Members of this House. I am glad that at Tuesday’s kamukunji, this matter came up. My request would be that if the necessary amendments to accommodate the welfare of former Members could be brought to the House as soon as possible, I will appreciate it. But more pertinently, a while back through a Motion, this House did an amendment to the Standing Orders which amendments we thought were very good. As you realize, many of us have expressed our reservations with the sort of answers we ... view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I really must thank you because as you may recall, many of us have expressed reservation about Chairpersons of Committees answering questions because that is not their constitutional duty. I just wanted to thank you for that step of further improvements on what this House has done because, truly speaking, I think it is the work of CSs and the Executive to address what Members raise. view
• 21 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to support the Report. As I support, I realise that time is not enough. However, I note that one of the areas that the Committee has observed is that the region is still facing challenges due to non-implementation of the Common Market Protocol. The letter of the law may not be useful if the spirit of the law is not impressed. This would be important. I also note that the report says that to effectively increase the volume of trade, there is need to fully implement the East African ... view