Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, it becomes more contradictory when you compare Kenya with, for example, a temperate country like Germany which is just about 60 per cent the size of Kenya in terms of geographical area. This is the case and yet from solar alone, Germany produces over 25 Gigawatts of electricity which is about 30 times what we produce from all our sources of energy. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: It is now time that we started thinking in a different way if we have to achieve the goals of Vision 2030. That is why sometimes I get concerned when I look at the programmes, for example, of institutions that we have entrusted with helping us to harness technology, like the National Council for Science and Technology. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Those of us who have been privileged to get higher education at the university sometimes wonder whether the research that goes on in our university is really appropriate to our country. For example, when you go to a university lecture hall and you are taught about Chaos Theory on how you can achieve order through chaos or the principle of entropy, I think these are grandiose things that mean nothing to our people. 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: We should concentrate on basic things, on how we can have industries at the village level so that when we produce milk, groundnut and maize from our farms, it is possible for us to have a certain amount of value addition and a certain amount of preservation so that the perishability aspect which makes our producers easy targets for the buyers is done away with. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: This is when you look at it from the point of view that on a good sunny day every square metre of the land surface of Kenya receives over 1kilowatt of energy. To me, what it requires is a minor mind shift in the way we conduct our research to a level where we can make this research more appropriate to the needs of our people instead of pursuing goals which have been achieved elsewhere and which really have no relevance to what we want to achieve. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, therefore, I would urge that, as hon. Kimaru would want to develop this Motion into a Bill, we look into how we can make good use of the available resources. It is always such a contradiction how there is so much misery in the midst of abundance. This is the story of Kenya, Africa and the Third World generally. It is something that requires boldness and doing things a little bit differently. It is something which requires us to even be courageous in undertaking experiments. Sometimes one of the biggest weaknesses that we have is that we ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. Two weeks ago I requested for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations regarding the death of a Kenyan citizen, the late Haji Lukindo after a road accident in which an American diplomat was involved. On that day, an undertaking was made by the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee that the Statement would be delivered today. view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, while I do not want to belabor this point, last week I said that as a Kenyan who believes in this country, I am very bothered about what appears to be poor treatment of Kenyan citizens. They are being treated as second grade citizens. I referred specifically to a case where a bride and her brother-in- law were murdered in broad daylight in Nairobi and the killers have not yet been found yet a foreigner who was murdered at night in Nanyuki, the killers were found two days later. These issues concern us because as Kenyans we ... view
• 2 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. Listening to the Members, I want to take this debate entirely differently. I wish hon. Members could listen to me. There is a joke that is doing around in the internet now and it is not good for us. It says that if you want to divide Kenya, involve the politicians but if you want to unite Kenya, involve the terrorists. I do not know whether it is a good joke or a bad joke. However, as leaders of Kenya, let us think about it. We divide ourselves along political lines and when the terrorists ... view