Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I also have an intervention. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Without wanting to repeat what my colleagues have said, I think the proposals which have been made here are good but they also raise some concerns. The fact that we are trying to finance almost one-third of our Budget through debt is a matter that should concern us quite a bit. We need to be making our Budget in tandem with the requirements of the new Constitution. Every year, this House appropriates vast sums of money to various ministries, departments and agencies. The following year Departmental Committees look ... view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Let us also have schemes that look at the humanity of things so that we are not just looking at going about our business as if to suggest it is a mechanical problem. I have also looked at the budget of this institution; the Parliamentary Service Commission. Hon. Speaker, as the Chair, I want to appeal to you directly. For those of us who use the gym, it is a big concern that there are people working there who earn less than Kshs6,000 from what they tell us. I cannot possibly see how somebody who earns Kshs6,000 can afford bus ... view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: So, as a House, I think it is time we questioned to what extent the vast sums of money that have gone into this IFMIS system have helped to improve financial accountability in this country. This is because it cannot be possible that for 17 years every Budget time we are appropriating money to the IFMIS system and yet we are still looking at wastages and hemorrhages that are mind boggling both at national and county level. My conviction is that if we were to seal the loopholes for these wastages and hemorrhages in public financial management, it is even ... view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to give my views on the agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House. view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: When this Bill was introduced in this House, members of the engineering fraternity had serious issues with it. I realize that the reservation of the President has got to do with giving the Board functions, when they were deleted from the Bill. We are going to pass this Bill which will recognize Engineering Technologists and Technicians. Even as we do so, we need to be cautious. Many of the problems we have in this country have got to do with jurisdictional lapses. This is where people who are not qualified to do some work pretend to engage themselves in those ... view
• 23 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Otherwise, like I did when this Bill was brought to the House, I support but with a lot of reservations. I would request the Mover that the task before us now is to educate the technologists and technicians that this Bill does not make them engineers. It takes a particular process from the training, to what you go through after you leave university, to becoming an engineer. A law of Parliament cannot bestow upon you what you are not qualified to do. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I appreciate this Motion before the House as it is being debated. Benefiting from memory and having been here in the last Parliament, there was a time when this House, in its wisdom, formed a Select Committee headed by the then Member for Marakwet West, Hon. Boaz Kaino. I was a Member of that Committee. We went throughout the country looking at the issue of cattle rustling. We came up with a report, which in my view, captured almost all the issues we are about to tackle in this Motion. I was just wondering because this again ... view