Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I just want hon. Diriye to know that when the Fund was set up, the initial proposal was that all the service providers contribute one per cent of their gross earnings per year but the service providers were up in arms. So, the initial regulation that came up had to be amended. There was push and pull, which delayed it. Until 2010, no much movement had happened. As hon. (Eng.) Rege has just said, the Committee that is going to implement the Fund was only gazetted early this year. So, it was really negotiations that have ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, allow me to start by thanking my friend, the Leader of Majority Party for this answer. Sometime in 1994, as a young engineer, I went to northern Kenya, Merti Town in Isiolo, and when we were being introduced, a young Programme Engineer by the name Boru, kept asking us how Kenya was. That question sounded very strange to me, but when I laid my hands on the highly acclaimed Sessional Paper No.5 of 1965, I understood where Boru was coming from. In truth, that Sessional Paper was for partitioning of Kenya into two classes, namely the neglected ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for that. The level of degradation that we see in some parts of the country breeds tention. Maybe it is not in the docket of the Leader of Majority Party, but we, as the leaders of this country, will probably have to think of a marshal plan that can bring equity to all parts of Kenya because, ultimately, we all stand to gain. view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. May I start by assuring the hon. Member who has just spoken before me that I sit in the Committee and that we arrived at some of the issues that he has spoken to; we welcome him to come, so that he can enrich some amendments that we are proposing to bring before the House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill seeks to entrench self-regulation in the media. As the Chair realizes that is an ideal way of doing things; self-regulation works. The Chair is a lawyer and knows that lawyers self-regulate very ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: tribal clashes of 2007. This is not gainsaying. In fact, it got to such a point that some communities labeled others using idioms, names that were only known to them, but names that were meant to incite communities against each other. I am a firm believer in the unity of this country. I am a firm believer in the oneness of Kenya. I am a firm believer in the equality of all Kenyans and this is something that we have to avoid. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have gone through the Bill as proposed and if you look at for ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: and such other related registers as maybe considered necessary. We have had some so called media practitioners in this country where literally--- I am talking of the gutter press. These people provide information – wrong, inaccurate or whatever you call it but it is information. It is time that a way is found that we are able to rein in on them because they offend people all the time. The gutter press offends people all the time. Almost all of us in this House every week especially when you hold a high position in society, at one point or the ... view
• 14 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I rush to conclude, I think it is important also that as we debate this Bill because one of the problems that we have had--- I sit in this Committee and stakeholders were saying they were not involved but there is a call to stakeholders to take part so that every Kenyan can participate in bringing their input. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have spoken about controlling the gutter press but finally I think it is important that we find in this Bill a way to rein in rogue activities in the blogosphere. ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and let me add my voice like the rest of my colleagues in extending my deepest and heartfelt condolences to the Aduma Owuor following the extremely evil and dastardly act of the murder of his poor helpless parents in Nyakach. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not want to speak much on this matter. I have spoken on this matter before but I think time has come for us as a House that we must say what it is that is happening in our country. If we continue to see a big spoon where ... view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: If you look for example in Kirinyaga County, there have been these unexplained kidnappings and killings which have been going on and nothing is happening. view
• 13 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: If you go to Busia, you will find a poor girl who was gang-raped by 16 teenagers more than three months ago and yet, the teenagers are still at large. Here in Nairobi, there is the case that hon. Shebesh brought to this House of the gang fights at the Dandora Dump Site. I am told that, actually, those people fought for five days and yet, the police station is near the dump site. Nothing was done. view