Nicholas Gumbo

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I still believe as some of the earlier contributors have said that perhaps it ought to have been an amendment to some of the existing legislations. Having said that, on...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo I am just reading. What is out of order? I am just reading the Act. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. Omulele) : The Member for Saku, what is out of order?

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with all due respect to my hon. junior from Marsabit County, I just want to tell him that even as you make amendments, you point out what is wrong with what you want to amend. I want to draw a perspective and I...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo 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...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I still believe as some of the earlier contributors have said that perhaps it ought to have been an amendment to some of the existing legislations. Having said that, on...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo I am just reading. What is out of order? I am just reading the Act. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. Omulele) : The Member for Saku, what is out of order?

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with all due respect to my hon. junior from Marsabit County, I just want to tell him that even as you make amendments, you point out what is wrong with what you want to amend. I want to draw a perspective and I...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo 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...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. As the Memorandum to this Bill says, this Bill is just to make minor amendments. However, if you look at this Bill closely, you will realize that some of the proposed amendments, in...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. Omulele) : Just before you take off, I would like to remind Members that every Member speaking to this will have five minutes according to resolutions of the House. Hon. (Eng.)...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity. Let me start by saying that this is a fairly tactical Bill grounded on the Constitution, Article 218. It is my view that a Bill such as this should be preceded by report from the Budget and Hon....

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Senate Amendments on the Health Bill (National Assembly Bill No.14 of 2015) . I am going to be very brief. The proposed amendment on Clause 5, seeking to introduce new Sub-clause (3) to...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Senate Amendments on the Health Bill (National Assembly Bill No.14 of 2015) . I am going to be very brief. The proposed amendment on Clause 5, seeking to introduce new Sub-clause (3) to...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Hon. Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Allow me to start by echoing the views of my colleagues who have spoken before me. The idea of Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bills, as I understand it – in fact, even...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity. First, let me kindly request you to consider referring the Petition by Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo to both the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. This is because of the...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo I am an expert. This is a good thing. I sit in the NG-CDF Committee. The move we have come up with is trying to share the Fund equally and making sure that everybody is equally taken care of. I support. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. (Ms.)...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to thank all the Members who have contributed. As a patriotic Kenyan, let me join the rest of the nation in congratulating our athletes who are beating the world in Rio de Janeiro. Early this morning, it was a great joy...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the PAC and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 199 (6) , it is my pleasure, privilege and honour to present to this august House the Report of the Committee on the Appropriations Account, other public accounts and the accounts...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo On a point of information. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. (Ms.) Mbalu) : Who are you informing? Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo I wanted to inform the House. Let me start by thanking my good friend---

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank Hon. (Dr.) Barua for his very concise and incisive contribution. I just wanted to inform him that as Public Account Committee (PAC) , we do not have any backlog anymore. If you look at the Report, the...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As an alumnus of the University of Nairobi, I have had occasion to be at the University at a time when a strike was going on. I can say with authority that an overwhelming number of students do not participate in those strikes....

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for outlining the programme on the CSs to appear before the House next week. Last week, I rose after he read the Statement on the Business appearing before the House this week. I...

Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill. To a large extent, this Bill contains very useful provisions which will make our elections better. I have said it before that having good laws and living by...