Zachary Kwenya Thuku

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I want to thank the Member for Busia County, Hon. Florence Mutua for bringing this up. It is really sad that we are losing lives in this magnitude. The statistics are worrying. This Motion is timely although I wish we did not have a Motion emanating from such an accident. My contributions on this Motion are three pronged, namely, the issue of carelessness, rogue traffic police and safety. I want to start with the issue of carelessness. Eighty per cent of the accidents ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: emergency and it is being driven at 120 kilometres per hour? Therefore, I take this opportunity, on behalf of the people of Kinangop, to condole with the families of the people who lost their lives. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I request that you defer putting the Question to a later date as per Standing Order 53(3). Thank you. view
• 22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We cannot judge the Report by the fact that the names do not seem to be from certain regions. Therefore, I want you to declare the Member for Siaya out of order for trying to insinuate that the President did not consider regional balance. view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to second the Motion. It is prioritizing the absorption of NYS servicemen and servicewomen by the disciplined services. Indeed, it is a timely Motion. We spend a lot of money on training of NYS recruits, during which we instill skills on our young men and women. I am disappointed that after taking our young men and women through that kind of paramilitary training, most of them end up being jobless. We do not absorb them into our disciplined services. Therefore, they become a threat to national security. Naturally, if ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: I urge that we have a programme of training and retaining NYS recruits. It is unfortunate that we put so much resource into a venture and then we abandon it. After some time, we invest in another venture and abandon it. Doing so would be going round in circles, and it would not be beneficial to taxpayers. I urge that we train and retain. We should ensure that every time our disciplined services – the KDF, the KWS, the Kenya Forest Service, the Kenya Prisons Service, and the National Police Service – have recruitment, they give priority to young men ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: At NYS, our young men and women acquire skills not just in paramilitary training. Some of them pursue engineering, catering and dressmaking courses, among others. We are supposed to have a policy to ensure that we have a retention mechanism, as much as we let a few to be absorbed elsewhere. The Government invests heavily in NYS. The NYS have camps and equipment all over the country. Many young men and women have been trained in civil and mechanical engineering but, when it comes to construction of roads, we still outsource from China because we do not enhance the capacity ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I second the Motion. view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the President’s State of the Nation Address. At the outset, I was pleased with the Address. The message that he sent across the country is that now we have reconciled and it is back to business, planning and doing what we were elected to do as Members of this House. I applaud the unity that he exhibited yesterday by briefing the House on how he met the Right Hon. Raila Odinga, who played a big role in the democratisation process of this country. This is a ... view