Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a thorough indictment of the regimes that have been there before. It goes back to the highly acclaimed Sessional Paper No.5 of 1965 which classified Kenya as high and low potential areas and gave emphasis to the development of certain parts of the country while completely ignoring other parts. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I am glad that this Bill clearly states that the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) will be responsible for classes “S”, “B”, “H” and “J” as stipulated under Section XI of this Bill. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I have a concern as to the composition of the Board of the KeNHA. I have seen many instances, when we are composing boards, we allow bodies that have no recognitions in law to be nominating entities. I have no idea why every time we make laws in this House we try to recognise this body called “Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA)”. As far as I am concerned, the KEPSA is not recognised in any law. The KEPSA is a gathering of like-minded people who have common interest. In fact, it can be there today and not be there tomorrow. ... view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I wish my friend Eng. Muhamud was here. When we say that the Director-General should be a holder of a Civil Engineering Degree in this day and age, what are we really talking about? If you go to the University of Nairobi, you will find that a civil engineer can be a water engineer or a structural engineer. We need to be more specific. What about those who have chosen--- view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: What is out of order? I am speaking about engineers. You are not an engineer! 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
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to apologise to my friend Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi. I agree with him that it is important for Members of the Committee to be here to take notes as we debate this important Bill. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: As I have said, the requirement in this Bill is either for the Director-General of the KeNHA or the KeNSRA to be a holder of a Civil Engineering Degree with, at least, 15-year experience. Civil Engineering per se is very limiting. We need to expand that because these days we know that there are universities that go beyond just the traditional civil engineering as we know it and offer courses in highways engineering. It is important to recognise that. view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: As I conclude, I will be proposing some amendments. I also notice that in this Bill there is no requirement for the Director-General of either the KeNHA or the KeNSRA to be a registered engineer. That is disrespect of our own laws. We recently passed the Kenya Engineers Board Act, an Act of Parliament. We have put very high standards of what a registered engineer should be. In fact, you are not recognised as an engineer in this country unless you become a professional engineer or a registered consulting engineer. That is an omission which we have to include in ... view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Most importantly, I have seen under the offences a very bad Kenyan habit of those who usually drag reinforcement bars along the roads and scratch the road surface. Under the offences, we must also be punitive on those who go out of their way either through improper loading or deliberate actions, for example, the irregular erection of bumps which happens all over the country. Why are we not including that as an offence in this Bill? The development of roads is a very expensive undertaking. The Estimates that we are about to debate allocate a lot of money towards development ... view
• 14 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: after all these years the Mombasa-Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret-Kisumu-Malaba Road has not been dualled. Otherwise, I support the Bill but I will propose amendments to it. view