Zachary Kwenya Thuku

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to add my voice to the State of Nation Address by the President. From the outset, I want to support the sentiments he made in this House on 4th April 2019. view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: One thing that caught my attention was his gratitude to the National Assembly for the passage of 22 Bills. We may seem not to be working but the President recognised that we have done that which we were elected to do which is to legislate. Therefore, I want to applaud his support for this arm of Government which is one of the three arms of Government as stipulated in the Constitution. view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: On the same note, I wish to support with all sincerity his initiative with the former Prime Minister on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). Sadly, there is some section of the society which is hiding behind BBI to scuttle the process and ensure that there is division and wedge out the governing party. Of course, we cannot take this kindly as a people and legislators. This is because we would want a situation whereby, in as much as we are building bridges, we should ensure we are only getting cohesive and not putting a wedge between ourselves. view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: What the President and former Prime Minister are trying to do is to pacify the political temperatures and have a conducive working environment. But, when we get the undertones that this BBI is meant to achieve some political rent, then we lose the very purpose for which it was formed. I noted that there is some money that is going to be paid from the exchequer to support the same. We must not play politics with such a beautiful initiative that is meant to bring this country together. view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: I would wish to see a situation whereby everybody who was elected in this House is able to do what they were elected to do. Those who are in the minority should check on the Government because we need Opposition to play the role of checks and balances as to the excesses of the Executive. If we see the people who are supposed to check the Government are same people who are going to bed with the Government then we are losing it. I would wish to see a situation whereby every Member of this House… view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do not want to take offence from what has been said by my colleague, Hon. Wanga, but I just want to state a fact. There are people in the party that formed the Government and there are others in the party that lost the elections and they are the ones supposed to give checks and balances to the party that formed the Government. view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand guided, but of course, my minutes have been taken. I would want to applaud the address by the President especially on the issue of manufacturing. But, we do not want to just speak about the Big Four Agenda without factoring money into the Budget. In the last Budget there was nothing allocated for manufacturing, food security and the Housing fund which is becoming something else in this country. We need to get to a point where we should move a Bill in this House to form the Housing Fund Act, so that ... view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I wish to withdraw my amendments because they are similar to what my colleague, Hon. Faith has. I support her amendment. view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, clause 18 of the Bill be amended in the proposed new section 58A (2)— (a) by deleting paragraph (c) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph— “(c) two persons nominated by the Association of Professional Societies in East Africa; view
• 5 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: (b) by deleting paragraph (d). We do not want to give preference to specific professions. We can get professionals from other areas like the Association of Professional Societies in East Africa (APSEA) instead of being discriminative in the Bill. Thank you. view