Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I have always argued about the powers that CSs enjoy. It has to be remembered that right now, they are no more than the appointees of the President. For them to make it look like they are frustrating the efforts of Members of Parliament to make laws is unacceptable. Members of Parliament go through a very difficult process of getting elected to this House. The fact that you come to this House means you are speaking not just for yourself, but for the people of Kenya. That is because not all the 40 million Kenyans can come to this House ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Even as I contribute, I want to echo the words of my good friend, Member for Westlands, Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi, on how we intend to govern ourselves as a country. I have said it on the Floor of this House and I want to say it again, that sometimes having many laws in the country does not necessarily mean how well the country is governed. In more ways than one, it is only a demonstration of perversity of nobility. This Bill, in my view, is utopic ... view
• 10 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
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Aghostinho Neto, was because the CS has been reluctant to give effect to the instruments that will operationalise that Bill. Yet again, you are putting a CS, a person who is not elected by anybody, an appointee of the President nevertheless, to be the one to decide the parts of the Act to put in the Gazette. That is a dangerous provision. If you look at Clause 10, you are saying that you criminalise failure by private entities to prevent bribery. What if that failure is inadvertent? What if that failure is not intentional? Such provisions tend to portray utopic ... view
• 10 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
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I reluctantly support. view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to move the Report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Before I move this Motion, let me respond to the concerns raised by my good friends, the Member for Gichugu, Dr. Njogu Barua. Even before I respond, let me congratulate him for finding time to write his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis. Some of us have been making that attempt for the last 10 years in vain. This Report appears to have come late. The reason this Report has come late is because the Report of the Auditor-General (AG), which we ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 9 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I start by thanking my good friend, the Leader of the Majority Party, for giving me the opportunity to second the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill 2015. This is an important Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I sit with you in the PAC. You are aware that later this month and the first few days of September, our country will be privileged to host the first annual conference and Annual General Meeting of the African Organisation of Public Accounts Committee. This is an important conference which will bring together all the ... view
• 9 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: of “financial institution” and “reporting institution”, is both a financial and reporting institution. If the Financial Reporting Centre is to tackle money laundering, then it needs to delink itself, to some extent, operationally and in terms of its organisation from the CBK. It cannot be a department within the CBK. It may look like a contradiction to try to suggest that the CBK may, either unknowingly or even knowingly be looped into the money laundering ring. We saw what happened in the Goldenberg scandal. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I sit with you in PAC and one of the concerns we ... view