Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: of public resources go to the courts, get injunctions and the hands of other accountability institutions, Parliament being one of them, are tied and they cannot do much. We plead with our court system, without in any way wanting to infringe on their independence, to understand the spectrum within which we work so that it does not become a fall-back point for people to try to escape accountability. The other point is what Hon. Johanna Ngeno raised. If you look at this Report, you will realise that the moving theme in this Report is outright incompetence, outright apathy and outright ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: that when the PAC visited Embu Prison, we found a Kenyan there; Senior Superintendent of Prisons, Mr. Charles Mutembei Gerrard. This is one man who has gone out of his way to use human waste, which we thought would be a nuisance, to generate biogas which has reduced the cost of wood fuel that is used at that station by nearly 30 per cent. I wish the Leader of the Majority Party was here listening because I would request him, on behalf of the PAC, to intercede so that the President can commend this hardworking Kenyan. The fact that he ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the PAC and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 199(6), it is my pleasure, privilege and honour to present to this august House the Report of the Committee on the Appropriations Account, other public accounts and the accounts of the Funds of the Government of Kenya for the year 2013/2014. I will go to the guiding principles upon which this work is based. In the execution of its mandate as aforestated, the PAC is guided by the core constitutional and statutory principles of public finance management as well as established customs, traditions, practices ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Article 201(d) of the Constitution says that public money shall be used in a prudent and responsible way. Article 201 (e) of the Constitution says that financial managers shall be responsible, and fiscal reporting shall be clear. The PAC places a high premium on these principles among others and has been guided by them in the entire process that has culminated in the preparation of this Report. During the course of our investigations, we looked at direct personal liability. In doing this, we were guided by Article 226(5) of the Constitution, which is emphatic that if the holder of a ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: This section empowers the appointing authority to discipline errant accounting officers, which could include revoking their appointments. This provision has sealed the long standing loophole that has previously seen accounting officers continuously committing or presiding over fiscal indiscipline and malpractices in their MDAs without sanctions. The PAC strongly holds the view that these provisions of the law were intended to be fully deployed to give effect to the high principles in Article 201 of the Constitution to ensure prudent and responsible use of public funds. The Committee has accordingly applied these provisions to recommend diverse disciplinary actions, investigations and surcharging ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Committee held a total of 46 sittings in the period under review, during which we examined all audit queries by the Auditor-General (AG) on the MDAs. All the minutes of the Committee’s sittings are herein jointly tabled with this Report as Volume II. In this exercise, the 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
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Committee was guided by the stated principles as well as the rules, procedures and customs of the National Assembly derived from the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya, the relevant Acts of Parliament, the National Assembly Standing Orders, conventions, usages, practices and rulings and directives of the Chair. During the course of our investigation, we made the following general observations:- The Report by the Auditor-General was tabled in the House in early July 2015. This delayed tabling was a contravention of Article 229(4) of the Constitution, which expressly gives timelines for audit. The Report was thus six months late. The ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The Committee, indeed, is thankful to Hon. Speaker for allowing the Committee to sit during House sessions to enable us cope with the workload and the strict constitutional timeframe. This was in pursuit of compliance with Article 229(8) of the Constitution as aforementioned. The timely tabling of this Report is of particular significance in ensuring fair revenue sharing within the national Government and the county governments, calculated on the basis of the most recent current audited accounts approved by Parliament as required by Article 203(3) of the Constitution. We, therefore, call upon this honourable House to expeditiously discuss and approve ... view