Zachary Kwenya Thuku

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. More than 10 per cent of our Budget will pay teachers. Indeed, we want to see value for money. I urge the Government to increase the number of teachers in our schools because the ratio of pupils to teachers or students to teachers is really wanting. This is something that needs to be addressed urgently. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion on the establishment of an ad hoc committee on the coronavirus disease. At the outset, our Standing Orders are clear on the formation of an ad hoc committee. It envisages such a situation. But, as I oppose the Motion, I wish to state that the facts bear that what is envisaged in this Motion has been taken care of. In fact, the whole business of this committee is time barred, because so much water is under the bridge at the moment. There are laws ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity to issue a Statement of condolence on the demise of the late Hon. Kimani Wanyoike, former Member of Parliament for Kinangop and Kipipiri - the defunct Nyandarua South Constituency. Hon. Speaker, I wish to make a Statement regarding the demise of a veteran politician and former Member for Nyandarua South - current Kinangop and Kipipiri constituencies. The late Hon. Kimani Wanyoike passed on while undergoing treatment in Nairobi. The late Hon. Kimani Wanyoike had an illustrious career as a vocal trade unionist and a politician. It will be remembered that Hon. Wanyoike ran ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak on this Motion that has been brought by the Special Funds Accounts Committee. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: At the outset, the purpose to which the Fund was created was to have a socially just and equitable society devoid of extreme poverty. We seem to be achieving that goal albeit slowly. That is because the Government has not replenished the Fund from the initial seed money that was allocated to it. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to bring to your attention something that is of interest. I sit in one of the oversight committees concerned with matters of finance. I got concerned today because we could be debating most of the audit reports that have been tabled in this House in vain. Article 229 (8) of the Constitution provides that we should expedite debate and adopt or reject the reports within three months after they have been tabled, but that does not seem to happen. We have been debating reports that have been tabled in this House six months or ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Frankly speaking, it is not possible to have all the reports that are tabled in this House expedited and debated within three months. The Constitution is clear that it should be within three months. We could have many legal hurdles where we adopt reports and expect that the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Committee on Implementation will follow on the same. But someone can run to court to challenge the same. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The initiative that is the Uwezo Fund as created has some challenges because there is no capacity building. So, the Fund is distributed or shared out haphazardly and there is a lot of brotherhood, nepotism and such like things. We do not have thresholds that are set. Even if some thresholds were set, the people that are entrusted with giving out the funds do not have a way of measuring and making sure that the deserving groups get the money. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Another issue that I have noted is that the money was cascaded down to the constituencies. But we have constituencies that are very large, like Kinangop Constituency, where I have two sub-counties. We get the same allocation like other constituencies. Going forward, I wish we could look at how best we can reach as many people as possible by having the money go through sub-counties. view