Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I do support really. It is a good amendment and we need some fair amount of independence. Some of us who engage closely with policemen in our jurisdiction, sometimes, have very sorry tales. The Officer Commanding Police Station (OCS) tells you he or she gets an allocation of two litres of fuel per day. Even the procedure of getting that allocation is too long. If anything, this will hasten the process of law enforcement. It must be supported by all. I support. view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank you. Since a lot has been said, I would not want to repeat the same. I have always maintained that the biggest problems that we have had in this country are the issues of equity and equalisation. The level of degradation in some parts of Kenya is truly appalling. Therefore, this should serve as the first step of bringing the railway line to Nairobi and take it to other parts of the country, so that even the marginalised parts of Kenya can feel that they truly belong to Kenya and have a ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: marginalised areas of Kenya. I have in mind Tana River, Garissa, Wajir, Marsabit, Turkana, Samburu, West Pokot counties, and all other marginalised areas. If we can be able to extend flagship projects of this nature to those counties, primitive practices like cattle rustling that we see all the time; inter-clan rivalry, ethnic hatred and other social ills can be done away with in the sense that all of us will have a way of getting actively involved in economic activities. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am in this House, courtesy of the fact that I am privileged to be an ... view
• 19 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: My time was very short! view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Both my culture and religious beliefs do not support FGM--- view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I said both my culture and religious beliefs do not support FGM. Why this problem is becoming difficult and people like hon. Angwenyi talk the way they do is, probably, because of the provisions of Article 11 of our Constitution. It says that the Constitution recognizes culture as the foundation of the nation and as the cumulative civilization of the Kenyan people and nation. This, in itself, can be a bit confusing and people may interpret it differently. view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: What I wanted to tell the Leader of the Majority Party is that we now have a Board which has been charged with ensuring that we do not have high prevalence of FGM in Kenya. We deal with a problem once we know its gravity. If the Leader of the Majority Party is in the know, let him tell us what the Board has done so far in assessing how prevalent the practice is in Kenya in terms of the number of the Kenyan people who are affected. May be he is not the right person to do it, but ... view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think that the move by hon. Dr. Chris Wamalwa is laudable. You are aware that for the most part when we have been discussing in this House, issues have centered around food security in our country and, a lot of times, we have observed that it is very difficult to attain a middle income economy if we cannot be food secure. Food security has a direct link to accessibility and affordability of fertilizers. I think that, in the context that we are pursuing to make it available to our people, it is laudable. Like with ... view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I stand to support the Motion. From the outset, I want to congratulate the Member for Suba, hon. Ng’ongo for the foresight in bringing this timely Bill to the House. You know, this Bill ought to have come to this House a long time ago but it had been delayed and that, in my view, is unfortunate. As a country, we must move forward and now start making laws for posterity, not for individuals. When this Bill was first proposed, there were some schools of thought which were of the view that it was targeting to benefit only ... view