Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Let me speedily repeat it. A while back, the Leader of the Majority Party and the Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations dealt with the case of the late Haji Lukindo who died in a road accident involving an American diplomat who cowardly left the country within 48 hours. I wanted to know what the Government, in collaboration with the American Government, was doing to extend some help to that family. That is because the widow who was left behind is jobless, had children and is expectant. You gave an undertaking that you will follow up with ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Let me speedily repeat it. A while back, the Leader of the Majority Party and the Chairman of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations dealt with the case of the late Haji Lukindo who died in a road accident involving an American diplomat who cowardly left the country within 48 hours. I wanted to know what the Government, in collaboration with the American Government, was doing to extend some help to that family. That is because the widow who was left behind is jobless, had children and is expectant. You gave an undertaking that you will follow up with ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Actually, it was the Chair who had undertaken and not the Clerk to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Maybe, he has forgotten but he undertook to go the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find out what remedy could be extended to this family which had been widowed and the children had been left without a father. That was the whole issue. So, really, it does not concern the Clerk as such. 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
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Actually, it was the Chair who had undertaken and not the Clerk to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Maybe, he has forgotten but he undertook to go the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find out what remedy could be extended to this family which had been widowed and the children had been left without a father. That was the whole issue. So, really, it does not concern the Clerk as such. 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
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. Although from the outset, I must say I am supporting the Bill, at the Committee Stage, I will be proposing a plethora of amendments. Let me start, of course, by thanking my good friend, hon. (Ms.) Amina Abdalla, for the very eloquent manner she has taken us through the Bill. In my view, this Bill has come at the right time. But as we embark on enacting this law, I think we must see it as an opportunity for us to depart from the comforts ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. Although from the outset, I must say I am supporting the Bill, at the Committee Stage, I will be proposing a plethora of amendments. Let me start, of course, by thanking my good friend, hon. (Ms.) Amina Abdalla, for the very eloquent manner she has taken us through the Bill. In my view, this Bill has come at the right time. But as we embark on enacting this law, I think we must see it as an opportunity for us to depart from the comforts ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: reality is that a lot of times our people, who by right are really the owners of resources, are some of the poorest in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what this amounts to is extremely rich a few literally sucking dry the blood of the majority of our people. This is what we must avoid; if this Bill is to achieve anything, we must avoid what we have seen. We have seen in recent times the pictures that are emerging from Migori where underage school going children are exploited by very greedy international merchants. It s the same thing ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: reality is that a lot of times our people, who by right are really the owners of resources, are some of the poorest in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what this amounts to is extremely rich a few literally sucking dry the blood of the majority of our people. This is what we must avoid; if this Bill is to achieve anything, we must avoid what we have seen. We have seen in recent times the pictures that are emerging from Migori where underage school going children are exploited by very greedy international merchants. It s the same thing ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: foundation is paramount because when we start from that foundation we will put the safeguard for ensuring that indigenous Kenyans, especially those who live around the areas where the resources are being exploited, are empowered to reap maximum benefit from those resources. It is also by looking at those agreements that we will put in them agreements into deliberate measures against foreign domination. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the last Parliament, I had an opportunity to visit Nigeria as a member of the Energy, Information and Communications Committee. We visited Nigeria and Ghana. The reason we visited Nigeria was basically ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: foundation is paramount because when we start from that foundation we will put the safeguard for ensuring that indigenous Kenyans, especially those who live around the areas where the resources are being exploited, are empowered to reap maximum benefit from those resources. It is also by looking at those agreements that we will put in them agreements into deliberate measures against foreign domination. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the last Parliament, I had an opportunity to visit Nigeria as a member of the Energy, Information and Communications Committee. We visited Nigeria and Ghana. The reason we visited Nigeria was basically ... view