Makueni Senator Daniel Maanzo asked the government to find other ways to compensate the Gen-Z protest victims on November 26th, 2025, in a senate proceeding.
He stated that although the court stopped the commission that was set up for the victims of Gen Z protests, nothing should have prevented the government from having other mechanisms for identifying extreme cases and dealing with them.
The Senator argued that providing alternative forms of compensation is not merely a gesture of goodwill but a demonstration of political accountability.
According to the senator, the government's failure to deliver justice goes beyond just legal details. He stated that the government's main investment is its people, and it has a duty to protect them and offer compensation when that protection fails.
Senator Maanzo argued that he was disturbed by the number of people who were unalived and injured by security officers, yet the government did very little to help the victims.
He pointed to the case of the Gen Z protests, where Rex Maasai was unalived, using it to show the devastating reality families are forced to face. The loss of a young life, he said, sends a family down an irreversible path of pain, grief, and hardship.
"When a family loses a young person who is very prospective, the trajectory of that family changes entirely, and the future of that family changes completely," Maanzo stated.
Maanzo stressed that this kind of deep, permanent loss demands more than slow legal procedures. He urged the government to take responsibility quickly and find immediate ways to support the families left behind.
"If I was caught up and a police officer or somebody shot me dead, the future of my family would have changed completely. If all the 47 senators here were shot in a university demonstration, then the Senate today would be very different," he stated.
The senator claimed that during his time in University, there were several riots and the University could even close down, but people were not shot at during demonstrations.
He compared the current regime with that of former President Moi, stating that the former president could not agree with such a vast number of losses of lives and that he always found ways of curbing them, and there would be arrests instead.
The senator insists that, instead of the huge number of deaths in the current regime, the government should find measures to control the number of cases of people dying in demonstrations.
