Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to these Reports. As I contribute, I must indeed, sympathize with the work of Auditor-General because what you get from this Report is a do-not-care attitude of the accounting officers, which is really frustrating public accounting in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this House has been granted a lot of powers by the Constitution. I think it is time we started wielding the big stick. When you look at the cases of under-expenditure and under-collection of Appropriations–in-Aid, they indicate laxity. I think we have talked about ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: It is time that we applied the constitutional provisions, so that officers in public offices who do not want to do their work are held to account. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we read these Reports, it is time we soberly embarked on the audit of the Constitution. This is because there is something fundamentally wrong with some of the individuals we have given office to hold on behalf of the people of Kenya. Even as we cry about the problems that are bedeviling this country, in more ways than one, the Executive remains guilty as charged. We must ask ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: you not inviting scorn from the universe? Are you not inviting the citizenry to laugh at you? What austerity measures are you talking about when you have so many alternatives and you are saying that you want civil servants to reduce their salaries; you are even saying that you want parastatal heads – some of whom can hardly make ends meet – to reduce their salaries? In my view, the President and his Deputy must relook at the quality, or lack of it, of the advisors they have because they are making Kenyans mock them. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I conclude, the President does not need to ask civil servants to reduce their salaries. Let him have the courage to implement the reports that we are debating here. Let him have the courage to deal with the individuals who have been mentioned in these Reports, and he will have more than Kshs300 billion at his disposal. There will be no need to reduce salaries because his answer lies in the reports that are presented to this House year in, year out. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Constitution is bigger than Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary. The Constitution already permits us to go after these individuals. What I would call for is for the euphoria to be over; now that we know we are Parliament and we are not the Executive, now that we know there are instances where tyranny of numbers means nothing, I think it is important for us, as a House, to provide the remedy that this country needs. It requires courage, a bipartisan approach and belief in Kenya and what Kenya stands for. view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the outset, I want to say that I stand to oppose this Bill because much as the intention may be good, the outline is very vague. I recognize that qualifications ought to relate with ability but that can only be possible if 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
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: sufficient fidelity is built into institutions that give those qualifications. I stand here as an engineer and I know as an engineer our profession is one of the most abused. In the villages you find people who repair bicycles being called engineers; people who empty full pit latrines being called engineers and all that. Nevertheless, that still, for me, is not reason enough for us to come up with a Bill like this at this time because even the institutions that we have, in more ways than one, are failing us. If you look at the objective of this Bill ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: what the wananch i are thinking is totally different. I think it is in that light that you can explain the Arab Spring that happened in 2011/2012, what happened in Turkey or what is going on in Ukraine. The voter, sometimes, even looks irrational. The other day I was reading a blog. I like reading blogs on matters of politics and I was reading a blog on the current President of Uruguay. It is very interesting and I think hon. Members may want to know who this man is. This gentleman goes by the name José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the real relevance is that we are discussing this Bill which Kenyans and I find difficulty relating with yet at the moment the problem that our country is obsessed with is about reducing the wage bill. So if it was up to me, I would ask our President to go to Montevideo and have a chat with President Jose Alberto Mujica to see the drastic changes that we need to bring in this country to bring the wage bill down, starting maybe with reducing the presidential motorcade, the number of bodyguards, even for ourselves. This is ... view