Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Having said that because I do not want to repeat what most of my colleagues have said, I am a believer that a country will look as far as it can look. The manner in which we have treated people who have made contributions in this country has been, to say the least, shabby. This is just not limited to politicians. As a student of the university, I remember one of the happiest moments for me was in 1988, when our team of heroes had just come from Seoul South Korea, having won five Olympic Gold medals. Anybody who was ... view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, sometimes I get lost on the standards that we use for recognizing achievements in public life. There are hon. Members sitting in this House who came here having won the support of hundreds or thousands of people. There are people they competed with. Some of these people, permit my language, become professional job hunters and end up in commissions. The next thing you know, on Jamhuri Day they get recognition as Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) while those who defeated them and came to this House and served for 15 years cannot ... view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks I support. view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is but honestly I do not understand. I have seen many people, for example, serving in constitutional commissions--- With due respect to them, most of these fellows are people who lost in elections. The people who defeated them sit here for ten years and they cannot even get HSC. view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, I will. However, I just wanted to point out that defect in our way of recognizing public achievement. You know what it takes to fight to come to this House. It is not easy. I find it very strange that you defeat somebody and tomorrow he is hanging a medal. Is this not qualification enough? That is getting hundreds of thousands of people to bring you here. This is what I am arguing about. view
• 18 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: I support, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Report. As I contribute to this Report, I want to follow from where my good friend, the Leader of the Majority Party has left; to beseech our colleagues that we should adopt this Report. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I start to contribute to this Report, if I was asked to write a story on San Marco Applications Centre from 1962 to date, the short title would be: “Selling Wealth to Buy Poverty.” I say this because I was privileged to be in the last ... view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: not regard them as human beings and it is very saddening. It is painful. On the attitude, to get into San Marco Applications Centre, the Committee of the House mandated constitutionally to provide oversight on behalf of the people of Kenya, had literally to plead. Even when we went in, the evasiveness of the managers and the attitude towards hon. Members was unacceptable. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to ask - and gain follow from where the Leader of Majority has left - how could successive Governments of Kenya from our founding Father, the man we highly respect, Jomo ... view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, it is! It has been used. Kenya has launched rockets from its own landscape using this Centre. Most Kenyans do not know that. This is a fact. It is on record; it is on the ground. The Leader of the Majority Party has spoken about the obligations of the Italian Government, which they have not discharged at all. I think that going forward, the Government of Kenya must also deal with what clearly appears, in my view, to be professional apartheid. The Kenyans at that Centre with the same qualifications as the Italians earn about a tenth of what ... view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: this Report - for the Jubilee Government to use, and by extension the people of Kenya, that Centre to join the league of big boys and girls of the world. We are at the moment on the throes of re-basing our economy. But that alone is not enough. We all know that space has now become the playground for countries that matter in the world. Kenya has no choice but to use this resource which is a Kenyan resource; built on Kenyan soil, using Kenyan air space, to join the big boys in the quest for the conquest of space. ... view