Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank the Assistant Minister for the answer. As I thank him for the answer, this technology park will be one of the key developments in preparation for Vision 2030. The issue of land use around this development is extremely important. view
• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at some of the measures the Government has outlined to control land use around the park one of them is sensitization. This means pleading and cajoling. That is not how the Government works. It works through laws, regulations, policies and legal notices. view
• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: This development has to be inter-Ministerial. It will involve the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government and the Ministry of Information and Communications. When will he liaise with the relevant Ministries, so that you can put legal notices to discourage encroachment? When you look at the land around Konza now, people are already advertising for quarter acre plots. Who will come here to invest a billion dollars, only to be surrounded by a slum? When will they put up the necessary legal notices to discourage people from unplanned land sub-divisions around the park? view
• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, current Government estimates are that when this park is fully operational, it will provide employment to about 80,000 Kenyans. In terms of daily water requirements alone, it is about 4 million litres per day. It is also estimated that when this development is fully operational, it will be a city. That will require hundreds of thousands of megawatts of power to run. I know the Ministry may not have got there. All these will need the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Ministry of Energy, among other Ministries. We will require an inter-Ministerial, not necessarily taskforce, ... view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 18 be amended by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (c)- view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: “(d) a lawyer in private practice who appears for litigants in court” view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, as I propose this amendment, I think as I said during my contribution during the Second Reading of this Bill, this amendment is supposed to protect magistrates and judges. It is not targeting any individual. We have discussed with hon. Mungatana. His amendment was trying to stop practising advocates from sitting on the Judicial Service Commission. What my amendment hopes to do is to stop practising advocates who are members of the Commission from appearing in court, though they can still practice law. I hope Members will see that. view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I am not a lawyer, but it is not correct that the High Court ruled that a practising lawyer can still serve in the Judicial Service Commission. What the High Court ruled was that there is no law to stop a practising advocate from being a member of the Commission. view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I started off by declaring that I am not a lawyer and so, I am not an expert on matters of law. My position is that the intention is good. In fact, I am equating it, in a very simple way, to an employer appearing for justice before an employee. This is because magistrates and judges will be employees of the Judicial Service Committee. But I agree that by putting the word “lawyer,” that is not what the Constitution intends. I do not want to belabour the matter. I could have asked the Chair to ... view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, you did not propose that Clause 26 as amended be part of the Bill. view