Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As has been said by my two colleagues; Hon. Aden Barre Duale and my good friend the Member for Saku, this is a very important Bill. I am glad that Hon. Duale made a clarification that metrology has nothing to do with the science of whether, which is meteorology. This Bill as has been said is an Act of Parliament for the manufacture, sale and use of weighing and measuring equipment in trade, health and safety environment in the sale of goods to provide for international best practices and administration of legal metrology services ... view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: purposes. It has also been pointed out that the essence of this Bill is to repeal the Weights and Measures Act which is an old Bill. view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: purposes. It has also been pointed out that the essence of this Bill is to repeal the Weights and Measures Act which is an old Bill. view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: I think the underlying point in this Bill and the whole essence of metrology has to do with a lot of things. I have looked at this Bill page by page. We tend to focus more on physical measurements but time has come when we must talk about abstract measurements. One of the things which people confront daily and virtually everybody in this country who is an adult carries a mobile phone. How do we know the accuracy of that billing? The whole essence of metrology has to do with the electronic realm. You are told by Safaricom you have ... view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: I think the underlying point in this Bill and the whole essence of metrology has to do with a lot of things. I have looked at this Bill page by page. We tend to focus more on physical measurements but time has come when we must talk about abstract measurements. One of the things which people confront daily and virtually everybody in this country who is an adult carries a mobile phone. How do we know the accuracy of that billing? The whole essence of metrology has to do with the electronic realm. You are told by Safaricom you have ... view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: I think the whole aspect of the accuracy of billing with regard to electronic services is something which this House must interrogate. In fact, before I became the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, I was sitting in the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information. I proposed to that Committee that Safaricom and other major Global System Mobile (GSM) service providers in this country must tell Kenyans the truth. It is not enough to be told this is your bill. It may be true that a minute of calling will cost you this much. How accurate are the bills ... view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: I think the whole aspect of the accuracy of billing with regard to electronic services is something which this House must interrogate. In fact, before I became the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, I was sitting in the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information. I proposed to that Committee that Safaricom and other major Global System Mobile (GSM) service providers in this country must tell Kenyans the truth. It is not enough to be told this is your bill. It may be true that a minute of calling will cost you this much. How accurate are the bills ... view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: In electrical engineering, there is something we call “calibration” which simply means “every so often”. The accuracy of those metres keeps changing whether electronic or not. You have noticed that if you put your watch side by side with somebody else‟s watch, the duration between seconds would be different. That clearly shows that there is either a lag or a lead which over time affects the accuracy of all equipment. That brings you to the whole aspect. There is a whole subject at the University of Nairobi called “instrumentation and measurements”. After that you graduate to control and measurements. The ... view
• 16 May 2017 in National Assembly: In electrical engineering, there is something we call “calibration” which simply means “every so often”. The accuracy of those metres keeps changing whether electronic or not. You have noticed that if you put your watch side by side with somebody else‟s watch, the duration between seconds would be different. That clearly shows that there is either a lag or a lead which over time affects the accuracy of all equipment. That brings you to the whole aspect. There is a whole subject at the University of Nairobi called “instrumentation and measurements”. After that you graduate to control and measurements. The ... view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to speak to this Bill. As I speak to this Bill, allow me to start by saying that the public finance cycle is usually uniform and in fact it is always universal world over. In any country, the public finance cycle will start with the Budget design, which is the presentation of the Budget between Parliament and the Executive which is presented to the House. Then Parliament embarks on the enabling legislation to implement the Budget which in essence is nothing more than a covenant with the people and a statement ... view