Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion. As I support this Motion, I notice that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has highlighted areas of significant deviation from the revised Budget of 2013/2014 and they are talking of the Budget going down by Kshs19.6 billion. However, that notwithstanding the Recurrent Expenditure has increased relative to Development Expenditure. view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I think this is really a concern. I think as a country we really must find creative ways of dealing with Recurrent Expenditure. I am convinced that there are a lot of wastages in Government which really ought to be dealt with. I have said it here before that in my view we tend to have a lot of duplication of roles in Government. This is something that as we go forward, especially in the manner in which we make laws, we have to deal with institutions in Government which basically duplicate one another. view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I see no reason at all why going forward in the future we cannot even push Development Expenditure to 40 per cent of the total of our appropriation. Even as we emphasise on development, I think we must pursue development with a human face. Why do I say this? Over the years, we have emphasised on building roads, providing electricity to our people, giving water, building hospitals et cetera. However, when you look around we must ask ourselves: Why has this emphasis not translated into happiness for our people? view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am convinced that even as we pursue development we must equally, probably, even with greater emphasis pursue social justice for our people. I think 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
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: from where we stand the biggest question our economic gurus must ask and answer is: Why has sustained economic growth in Kenya not translated into more employment opportunities for our people, food security for our people, improved security for our people, improved health care and access to clean drinking water? I think these are important questions that we must ask because we know only a small percentage of our people in formal employment are employed in the public sector. In fact, of the millions of Kenyans who are in formal employment, I think if you remove the teachers, just about ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this calls for measures to remove barriers for setting up enterprises in Kenya and I am talking about this because soon we will be looking at the Finance Bill. I think the taxation measures that we undertake should be such that they encourage the development of small to medium enterprises as opposed to multinationals. This is because I looked at, for instance, the taxation measures that the Cabinet Secretary spoke about the other day. When you look at them, they maybe good in terms of promoting the development of multinationals but what about the small scale industries and ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as I conclude I want to say that if you look at maybe the last couple of years our allocation to security has been quite substantial. Some people have said that insecurity in Kenya has gone up because our allocation to security has been below par. This is not true. In the last financial year, the allocation to security in Kenya, where security here means allocation to defence, internal security and collection of intelligence, was as big as the allocation for the rest of East Africa, that is Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi put together. Then the question ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to say it from the Floor of this House that last week you remember we adjourned the House to debate the insecurity situation at the Coast. Personally, I think that security will improve significantly in our country the day those of us who are privileged to hold leadership positions will learn to preach peace. Here I am saying without fear of contradiction that I think security in our country will improve a great deal the day those of us privileged to hold leadership positions will learn to put a fine filter between their brains and their ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to support. view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there is a matter that has been lingering on for a very long time, and I think this House needs to pronounce itself on it; unless that is done, we may be seen to be legislating in vain. It is now over two-and-a- half years since we passed the Engineers Bill. That Act is very clear that it needs regulations to govern it. I have been raising this matter so many times, but those regulations are not coming here, and this failure affects quite a large section of the community. This is important; it is not right for ... view