Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to report that the Committee of the whole House has considered the Magistrates’ Courts Bill (National Assembly Bill No.40 of 2015) and approved the same with amendments. view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second. view
• 12 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to second that the High Court (Organisation and Administration) Bill, National Assembly Bill No. 47 of 2015, be now read the Third Time. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: No. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is not on your ruling which you have just made. I just want to say that in future, maybe, those who draw the sanctions need to make them stiffer. What I want to say is in regard to the statement by the Leader of the Majority Party. We tabled a report here as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the Judiciary and it had quite a number of issues which were of public interest. It is now about four months since the report was tabled. Given that the matters therein are really weighty and touch at the ... view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I wish to support this proposed amendment. Terminologies like ‘fair”, “prompt” and “full” tend to be very qualitative. I wish that in this amendment, we could be courageous enough to introduce quantitative aspects to these amendments. Terminologies like “fair”, “prompt” and “full” are subject to perception. What we could have done, and I hope this can be done in the regulations, is to put figures so that we do not make it a whimsical process, which depends on what somebody thinks or considers fair, prompt and full. Otherwise, I support the amendment. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to take over from where Hon. Shaban has left off. Our laws are very clear that the Chairperson of the Council of Governors is a State officer. Our laws are very clear that a State officer cannot have any other income apart from what we have. It is not just about the Chairperson of the Council of Governors. I also see that they have proposed the Chairperson of the National Lands Commission, who is also a State officer, to serve as a secretary to the Board. How is this going to The electronic version ... view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: work? Unless we are going to be told expressly that they are going to sit on this board pro bono, we will be violating the law. The law is very clear. The Leadership and Integrity Act states that State officers cannot have any other income apart from what we draw from the consolidated funds. How is this going to work? We need clarity on this. Otherwise, we are going to enact a law which is unconstitutional. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I think the reasoning by the Committee appears convincing to me, that before you go to the High Court there should be an intermediate way to recourse, so I want to agree with the Committee that the Senate’s amendment be rejected. view