Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: If today I want to buy something from Hon. Njuki in his private capacity, the transaction is private, between him and I. Why should I be bound by laws on procurement which have nothing to do with the agreement between us? In any case, the law governing procurement in this country was passed in this House. It is Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act, 2015 which the President assented into law. Why can we not say what it is instead of being timid and ambivalent for no reason at all? view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I oppose. view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: That is okay. What I have a problem with and I wish my colleague Hon. Nyokabi would listen to me, when you see procurement, the ambit of this House is to confine itself to public procurement. So, are we saying that we are now going to infringe on private procurement? This is going to affect everybody. That is the concern I have really on the ambivalence of the law. view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I just wanted to make a brief comment. The Senate amendments highlight what some of us have complained about for a long time and that is the extremely poor quality of drafting in most of our Bills. Some of us have stood on the Floor of this House to say that our drafters should take their work seriously. There are statutes in this House whose drafting we complained about but were not corrected and they still carry those errors. Poor drafting can change the entire meaning of a piece of legislation. Most importantly, most ... view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: You did not propose the Question. view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I wish my good friend, Hon. A.B. Duale, was here. I listened to him moving this Bill. I want to say that as a pitcher for the Jubilee government, he scores an “A+”. I hope that as his boss up the hill listens to some of the things he says, that should give him a lot of marks with the powers that be. However, sometimes pitching and facts are not necessarily brothers. Sometimes, it is doubtful whether pitching and facts are even distant cousins ... view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Anybody who has gone through the JKIA of late will appreciate the fact that the departing and arriving passengers do not meet while within the facility. It is a good thing. That was a major security lapse. It is also a fact that the departure and arrival lounges are much more ambient and clean. However, the attitude we should have is that the JKIA remains a work in progress because we are looking forward to have Terminal 2. We only have one terminal at the airport, and to be ambitious is a good thing. The programme that we have to ... view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Anything that can improve and make us have direct flights not just to America but to the major destinations in the world is a good thing and has to be supported. We have spoken about this before and I am glad that the Temporary Deputy Speaker and I were privileged to be in the last Parliament. One of the biggest problems that the KCAA has is less power and resources as the industry regulator than some of the entities it is supposed to regulate, like the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA). Even KQ had more muscle than the KCAA when it ... view
• 11 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: such that it cannot attract and retain qualified staff. It is no secret that some of the operators like KQ today have better aircraft engineers and air-worthiness inspectors than KCAA. That is a dichotomy and inversion of things. It should never be that way. It is being rumoured that sometimes for the KCAA to do proper inspections they have to depend on experts from the same people that they are supposed to oversee. How then do you have an aviation industry that can be trusted? In fact, Hon. Duale has just spoken to the fact that some Members of the ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. This amendment by Hon. Neto is very important. This is because at times when we give the CSs the leeway to give the time when an Act of Parliament can be operationalised, they misuse that provision. This is a good law. Debate about the role of NGOs has been going on in this country. Of course, there are times that NGOs tend to exceed in terms of the benefits they give to the community. There are times that some of the NGOs definitely have ... view