Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3121 to 3130 of 3504.

• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The area that Dr. Khalwale spoke about is in Kibera, and he has implied that the Member of Parliament for that area, specifically, Kibera--- As far as I know, it is against the Standing Orders of this House to impute improper motive on a Member without moving a substantive Motion. Could hon. Dr. Khalwale table documents in this House to show that the area Member of Parliament is the one responsible for what he has just talked about, and substantiate? view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. While the intention of the Motion may be good, I want to declare from the outset that I stand to strongly oppose the Motion. This Motion aims largely to bring equality in the education system in Kenya. My view is that absolute equality is not possible. I also do not agree that at Standard Eight, children are too young to appreciate national values. I went to a very lowly primary school in the late 70s and if I am here today, it is ... view
• 15 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: I also think that it is rather simplistic to suggest that those who cannot make it beyond Class Eight become village cabbages. I stand here to testify that in most of the schools that we build with the CDF funds, we use people who after Class Eight went to the local village polytechnics and have become very good and notable fundis . This Motion is also being very unrealistic to the reality in Kenya today. As I speak, this country has an acute shortage of teachers. There are not enough schools. For example, in Rarieda, we have 116 primary schools ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on Thursday, I asked the Minister for Transport to bring a Ministerial Statement on Procurement of Consultants for Lamu Port, which he did. The clarification involved very bulky documents, which I could not study at that time, and I had asked to be given up to today to interrogate the Statement. Would I be in order to request the Chair to allow me to do so right now since the Minister for Transport is right here? view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Minister for the answer that he gave but my opinion is that this process was total abuse of the tender process, and I want to demonstrate that. In tendering, there are only two ways to do it. One is time, cost and quality based, and the other is quality based. When you use the quality based method of procurement of consultancy, it means that you are going to refer to an agreed scale of fees. In the Statement that the Minister gave, he stated very clearly that at the RFP stage, the pass ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, again, in his Statement, the Minister said that on 21st September, 2010, he wrote to Treasury, raising concerns over the pricing of the contract for Japan Port Consultants, yet I have with me here a letter that was done by the Ministry, which was the procuring entity, dated 1st April, 2010, awarding the contract to Japan Port Consultants. How is it possible that the Minister sought a clarification after the award of the contract? More fundamentally, it is the rule of tendering the world over that when you tender for consultancy, all the people who are ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I do highly appreciate the Minister’s action to reduce the cost, but is he in order to avoid answering the question? I stated very clearly that the letter from the Ministry which awarded the contract to Japan Port Consultants was written on 1st April, 2010. That means there was only one financial bid which was looked at. Before you awarded, one expected you to study the rates and award based on negotiations. That was not done. Yet on 21st September, 2010, exactly five months after the letter of award was done, ... view
• 14 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I really want to thank the Minister for the intervention he took to get us a reduction of over Kshs1 billion on this, but he is a Kenyan and honestly, when we talk about our country and wanting to build our country, let us mean it. Is he in order to say that he is not sure if anything wrong was done when officials from the Ministry permitted a tender which purports that a driver should be paid Kshs1.2 million a month? Really, is this a matter that one can say ... view
• 7 Jun 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister for the speed with which he has responded to this Ministerial Statement. view