Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2481 to 2490 of 3504.

• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 3 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: While I do not wish to repeat what the Leader of the Majority Party has said, one of the benefits that we intended to gain by going purely presidential was to allow this House to concentrate on its core mandate, key of which is law making. This matter has been coming up, and I thank the Leader of Majority Party for raising it again. We have reached a point where we now need the intervention of the Speaker because the main purpose of what the Leader of Majority Party has done is to enable hon. Members to prepare, so that ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to support the Motion. However, even as I support the Motion, I think the biggest problem for our country has always been the fact that we sell raw materials. This is why 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
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: people are busy all over the place but you do not see the returns being commensurate with what they do. It is not just in milk. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: I come from an area where fishing is a major industry and it saddens you how our fishermen are exploited. They have to sell raw materials or fish without any attempt to do value addition. This is the case and yet when you import the same fish in canned food, the price sometimes is up to ten times more. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, even as we support this Motion, I urge hon. Kimaru to be a bit more creative so that we look at those practices from other parts of the world. It is a known fact that milk farmers are exploited because milk is a highly perishable product. Sometimes, the sellers are at the mercy of buyers because if you do not sell it within a particular time, then you lose it and this is the problem. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: A lot is happening in the world and as Kenya, we probably need to learn from what other countries do. If you take the case of China, for example, how have they become great? I have no doubt in my mind that at the current rate, in another 10 or 15 years, China will probably be the biggest economy in the world. How has China become great? It is simply because there is an industry in almost every village in China producing one thing or the other. I think it is possible even with this Motion. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: What we are looking to achieve through this Motion is for us to make it possible, not necessarily through the Central Government but even through the county governments and village level, to do a bit of value addition. Products like yoghurt are very easy to produce. As hon. Shill has just said, this obsession of selling raw materials is what is making it easy for our producers not maximize on the value of their products. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: The sorry state of our country has always been seeing so much misery in the so much abundance. You can look at, for example, the energy sector. I belong to the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information. Just two days ago, we were looking at the proposals to achieve 5 Gigawatts in the next 40 months and then we said that, that is really a tall order because in the last 52 years, we have only managed to produce 1.6 Gigawatts. It is very ironical that Kenya, being a tropical country occupying over 580,000 square kilometres and receiving abundance ... view