Eng. Nicholas Gumbo

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• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I fully agree with the Committee. The reasons they have canvased are quite in order. Clause 34(a) states that the Cabinet Secretary shall on receipt of the application give notice in writing regarding the application on the grant of a mineral right to the land owner or the lawful occupier of the land where the minerals are located. There is no rationale whatsoever why you would delete that because the application right has to go to the land owner or a lawful occupant. I support the committee’s resolution to reject the Senate amendment. view
• 22 Oct 2015 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
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: THAT, clause 38 be amended in sub-clause (1) by deleting the word “un- alienated” appearing at the end of paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the word “unregistered”. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I agree with the Committee’s position. Subjective measures like uniqueness are always fraught with people’s personal biased opinions. Unless we introduce this amendment and then say that the regulations will quantify what constitutes uniqueness, merely saying uniqueness is not enough. These subjective measures allow people to form biased opinions and it is very difficult to pin somebody down. How do you measure uniqueness? We have to be able to measure things. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the reasons given by Hon. Chachu Ganya are reasonable. In any case, merely reducing the period from four to three years at the expense of giving the wrong signals to investors is not worth it. So, I support the proposal by the Committee that we reject the Senate amendment. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. As it has been rightfully put by my good friend, Hon. (Dr.) Naomi Shaban, this Bill seeks to give a legal framework to the provisions of Article 69 of our Constitution, and to some extent Articles 70 and 71. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you allow me, I would like to take you through memory lane, and share with House memories of a trip I was privileged to make as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information during the last The electronic ... view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Parliament to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2012. Historically, Nigeria and Algeria, two countries of Africa with almost the same name, discovered oil almost at the same time. But as we speak, Nigeria is being used more as an example of how not to exploit petroleum resources as opposed to Algeria, which is a study case in optimal use of petroleum resources. This should be a warning to us to get it right the first time. Exploitation of petroleum resources starts with upstream operations where you look at the multinational companies, which do exploration, mining and extraction of petroleum ... view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: vast responsibilities. If you look at the responsibilities of this body under Clause 17, they are so many. It can do almost anything within the petroleum sector. But, who are the members of this Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority? The membership is the chairperson who is appointed by the President, the CS responsible for energy and petroleum, the CS for the National Treasury and then the Director-General. Then, there is a provision there which says: “Five other members appointed by the CS,” yet there is no procedure or nothing for that sort. This House and the representatives of the people have ... view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: So, I support but I give the caveat that I will be proposing a plethora of amendments, so that we make this Bill contemporary to the needs of our country, and so that we prove that we have learnt from the mistakes of other countries. view
• 22 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I support. view