Zachary Kwenya Thuku

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: As much as it is the state-of-the art hospital, it has been lying there for the last two years. It is complete and waiting for some budgetary allocation of Kshs600million which it has not been given. The equipment in that hospital has a warranty. We are getting to the expiry of the warranty before the equipment has been put into use. It is a shame. We are talking of a hospital that cost an equivalent of the same money that we allocated to procure scanners that have turned out to be a scandal. We allocated Kshs8 billion for 37 scanners. ... view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: The hospital has 600 bed capacity. The only thing that we lack is Kshs600million. The next question that we should ask ourselves is the issue of management, so that we do not come up with another Kenyatta National Hospital which is a den of death. Once you take your patient there, you are not sure whether he will ever be treated or come out alive. We must think of the management of Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, so that we can have an efficient management that will look into the details of whatever is required. The electronic version of ... view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Because much has been said by the Mover and Seconder of this Motion, I wish to urge this House to be kind enough to support this Motion without amendments. This will be the game changer within this region. We can also be the next destination of medical tourism from the countries that are within the region. They will be coming to Kenya to seek treatment at Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital. I can tell you that this is a hospital of its kind. I urge Members of this House to go and familiarise themselves with the kind of facility ... view
• 4 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to speak on this Report. It is our Report because I belong to the PIC. I must say that it took us a lot of time to come up with this Report given the magnitude and the thoroughness that we had to accord all the State corporations in the Report. We observed several things and the one that was cutting across was the issue of land. Most State corporations have chunks of land for which they do not have title deeds. Many of them are in dispute and we recommended that ... view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: have given in this Report, we hope that going forward, any corporation that does not answer all the audit queries raised, should have their budget frozen so that they are incapacitated to do anything until they have cleared the air on all the issues that have been raised. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: On State corporations on the energy sector, we found out that the Auditor-General has been outsourcing for services of audit. It is interesting that as much as the audit companies gave a clean bill of health to these parastatals, later on, some officers were being charged with corruption yet they had a clean bill of health. So, we have recommended to the Auditor-General to carry out the audits himself as opposed to outsourcing. Other case studies are the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO), the Rural Electrification Authority (REA), the Kenya Power Company (KPC) and the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen). view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: In conclusion, if State corporations are well managed and planned, they can be a source of funds whose surpluses can be channeled to the Exchequer and ease the burden of tax on the Kenyan populace. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Finally, it does not matter how many good reports you are going to generate from our committees and adopt in this House. If they are not implemented, it will be an effort in futility. Many reports and Motions have been passed in this House which are never implemented. We are suggesting that from every watchdog committee, we have an implementation subcommittee that is going to work with the Committee on Implementation to ensure that all our reports that are generated and adopted in this House are implemented within record time so that we can get value for whatever it is ... view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Twenty Second Report on Audited Financial or State Corporations. Thank you. view