Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have to accept that in the life of a human being, greatness can only be acquired in three ways. You can be born great, you can have greatness thrust at you or you can acquire greatness. Many of us including yours truly, the Member for Rarieda, is relatively great on the basis of acquired greatness. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: What stops many of our youths from being great is that many times, we do not tell them that acquired greatness comes through perspiration or through back-breaking hard work. To me, this is the only way to do it. Many times, when we engage with our youths, we do not come out and tell them not to let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is said that if I lose a thousand times, I should not look at it as a loss but I should look at it as a thousand experiences on how not to do it. I think this is how we should go about engaging with our youth. It is also important that we tell our youth at all times that in most times it is choices and not circumstances that will determine success that we achieve in this life. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Many Kenyan youths, and we engage with them even from the constituencies where we come from, give up before they try. In my view, when you give up before you try, you chose to see the thorns in the roses and not the roses in the thorns. We must tell our youth that every rose has a thorn but try to see the roses in the thorns and not the thorns in the roses. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Many times, our youth engage in procrastination. They have good ideas but they do not go beyond conception. It is a common norm that some of us grew up in the rural areas and sometimes you are tasked with going to plough in the fields, but you will never 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
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: plough a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to tether the cows and take them to go and plough the field. I think this is important. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, as we engage with the youths, we should tell them candidly that excuses always are the nails used to build houses of failure. This is because this candid engagement is what will open up our youth. I am glad that this Bill has come through the Chairman of TNA, my good friend because he is very progressive in his thinking. A while back we engaged here and we were looking at related laws that can open up opportunities for our youths. We looked at the entertainment and the art industry and we said that let ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Well, we have an artist called Nameless. That is his stage name and he is a very famous artist in this country. view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, that is his stage name. Jua Kali comes from my place and that is his stage name and that is how he is known. Having said that, we must also be candid as leaders of this country. Let us look at systems of governance and the traditions that have held back this country. At Independence, we set out to fight the three enemies which were poverty, ignorance and disease. How have we not achieved that 50 years later? It is because along the road we introduced deliberately three other enemies which were bad governance, tribalism and corruption. These vices ... view
• 12 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: and keeping everybody else away. As long as people or Kenyans do not feel that they have a stake in their own country, even these good legislations that we are bringing here will come to nothing. As I conclude, this country is mourning today because one of the most brilliant sons of this country passed on. That was the first African to become a professor in East Africa. That is Prof. David Wasawo. It pains me that Prof. David Wasawo, out of considerations other than competence and qualification was not the first vice-chancellor of a Kenyan university. I want to ... view