Zachary Kwenya Thuku

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Article 43 talks about social rights. One of the social and economic rights is the access to health. Our county governments must be seen to be investing heavily in matters health. You walk into our health centres and all you see are cheap medicine, most of which are pain killers. There are no doctors and we do not have sufficient nurses. You go down to our county governments, there is the issue of water. Nobody is investing in such programmes that are for posterity. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Therefore, we would want to see our county governments investing more on investments that are for posterity. view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We have had issues with our county governments procuring outside PFM Act and Public Procurement and Disposal Act (PPDA). We cannot have institutions procuring beyond their budgets as envisaged in the PPDA. Therefore, procurement should be in accordance with the call by our President, His Excellency Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, that every procurement that is done should now be above board and be on e-procurement, so that then there is not much of human interaction. I hope that we will have an ICT system where, if procurement is done beyond what is allocated in the budget, there will be a lockdown ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I also want to speak to the issue of timely releases of funds to the counties. As I had said before, so much delays that are occasioned by the National Treasury is because they give priority to the Ministries and State departments that are within the National Government. The county governments are left at the mercy of the National Treasury begging whereas; they should be getting the first priority. The surest form of devolution if we are to spur growth and economic development must start at the county level. Once the county governments start doing projects at the county level, ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Finally, on physical planning, you realize that our towns are growing tremendously because of devolution. The county governments have no building capacity to deal with the growth that is happening within our county governments. I would give an example of two towns in my constituency, Kinangop. One is called Engineer and the other one is called Njabini. Those are towns that are growing tremendously. However, you will find that the county government is not investing in terms of planning on how sewer is going to be taken care of, increasing water capacity, playing fields, markets and such kind of things. ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Finally, His Excellency the President, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, when he was re-elected for the second time, spoke of the Big Four agenda. On top of it was the issue of manufacturing. We would want to see our county governments putting money into some of these issues to do with manufacturing, building factories in our constituencies and in our sub counties. We have seen a situation where a country like Ghana, came up with a policy of one factory per district. They are implementing that. That is going to deal a blow to the issue of unemployment. It is going to ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Asante sana, Mhe. Naibu Spika wa Muda kwa nafasi hii. Kwanza ningetaka kumshukuru Rais wetu kwa kumwalika Rais Suluhu Hassan kuwa pamoja nasi. Tanzania wamebarikiwa sana kwa sababu wana Suluhu, Mpango na Majaliwa. Hawa wote ni viongozi katika serikali yao. Jambo la pili na la mwisho ni kwamba Rais Suluhu amejionyesha kuwa mwanadiplomasia ambaye Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki inahitaji sana. Nasema pongezi na aendelee zaidi. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Asante sana, Mhe. Naibu Spika wa Muda. view
• 11 May 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity to weigh in on this weighty matter that is before the House. I must start by condemning the conduct of our colleagues. I was so ashamed that one of the Members could utter the words that he did on the Floor of the House, as to the way we were voting, to the extent of calling colleagues sell-outs. That was the lowest that this House could get, being a House of honour and having been bestowed the responsibility to legislate on behalf of the people of Kenya. Every Member of this House sought ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: On behalf of the great people of Kinangop, I vote yes. view