Zachary Kwenya Thuku

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The other issue that caused me to look at these regulations is insufficient public participation because security guards are not a preserve of Nairobi County only. We have other counties that have interest in this because private security companies complement the work done by the National Police Service. Telling these small private companies to be in compliance by 20th January 2020 is simply not achievable. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Security companies that are compliant or those that can comply within that period are few giants that we have. This maybe begs this question: Who drafted these regulations because the intention seems to have been to drive the small players out of market? Therefore, I strongly support the Committee’s position. You can imagine a security firm being asked to pay their security guards a colossal amount of Kshs35,000 per month. How many people can afford to hire a security guard for their homesteads at that amount? How many companies can afford it and make profits from the people they employ? view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The other issue is: How is it that the drafter of the said regulations proposed that there be a private security regulatory authority where only two of the representatives would come from the industry players and the rest will be from outside? We have not seen a regulatory authority where people who have no interest in the industry are the ones appointed to regulate. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: So, I strongly support the Committee’s position to annul the said security regulations. I thank you. view
• 15 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to speak on this Motion that has been brought during this Zero Hour. I want to state from the outset that Kenya is a country of extremes. Last week, we were able to hit both the North and South Poles all at one time. It is last week that we were mourning the loss of our sister and child at Likoni Channel that took so long. We had a long way to have the body retrieved. I continue condoling with the family for such a loss. I pray that as much ... view
• 3 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak to this Report. I support the same and say that, as much as we want to establish an anti-corruption academy that is international in nature, we must address ourselves to the causes and reasons as to why corruption has become an international threat, just like organised groups that are a threat to national security. 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 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: On the same breadth, the Speaker rightly put it that we are putting a lot of energy on corruption and that gives us negative energy and, maybe, the impact may not be as much. What we should address, instead, is what this corruption that we keep on talking about is. What comes to our mind first? If we are not able to address that from the word go, we will never get it right and we shall never slay the dragon called corruption. We must talk of ethics because that is where it starts. A national or international establishment may ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak on this Sessional Paper No.1 of 2019. Indeed, it is a Paper whose time has come. It is well thought out and tends to answer the many challenges we are facing in the education sector in the Republic of Kenya. Nelson Mandela once said that education is the only equaliser. This is the only way a child from a humble background can dine on the same table with a child born and raised in palace. This being the case, we need to give education the weight it ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Infrastructure is a big challenge in this country. As much as the Executive would want to believe that they are giving the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NGCDF) enough funds to develop, that is a fallacy. I will give my own example of Kinangop Constituency, where I have about 160 schools. I have an allocation that is equivalent to that of a 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
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: constituency in Nairobi that has about three schools. I am expected to develop all my schools from the same kitty and be at par or with a constituency in Nairobi that has only three schools. So, we have so many condemned structures in schools yet we are still talking of 100 per cent transition of pupils from primary to secondary school. It beats logic. We are talking of equity and equality in this country, but when it comes to resource allocation, it is not seen to be done. So, we disadvantage some areas. If we continue that way, we will ... view