Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: automatically that we have allowed querying. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will get some work to do. At the end of the day, it will then mean that the country will suffer. This is a way of putting this House in a situation where we have no choice but to approve. I do not think this is the right way to move where we have no choice but to approve. I think the law allows us to change, approve or decline. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Timeliness is very important. The National Treasury needs to get its act together in terms of when they should submit budgets to this House. Normally, Supplementary Estimates are supposed to cater for emergencies. When reading this Report, the only thing that I can comfortably accommodate and say the House has a role to approve is the issue where the Kenya Shilling has depreciated. As a result of that, we are being asked to provide more resources to pay the public debt. That is understandable because we cannot plan for it. That brings on board the issue of market forces. All ... view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Another annoying thing which I think every Kenyan should be concerned about is where we are being requested as a House to reduce the Development Vote by about Kshs.44 billion - but I am not sure whether that is the amount. We are saying we want this country to develop and, therefore, we are getting direct funding from our development partners, but there are challenges. That is another indicator of the fact that we are not doing preliminary requirements correctly. If we analyze the process and know we are getting money from a particular development partner, we need to state ... view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The other item is the issue of how the Supplementary Estimates are being presented, bearing in mind that we have moved to programme-based budgeting where we need the outputs and the indicators to be very clear. So, since we have said this four times as we debate the budgets, I think the Parliamentary Budget Office which has technical people who are very qualified may need to come up with a kind of a framework to be telling the Treasury: “This is the way we want the Supplementary Budget to be presented to Parliament so that it makes our work easier ... view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the chance to contribute to this important Bill. We are all aware that we passed the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Estimates, although I hear some people say it was by coercion. Whether it was by coercion or by choice, having passed it, the Appropriation Bill is right in this House. Once the Appropriation Bill is passed by this House, it is going to pave way for the drawing of resources The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: from the Consolidated Fund. This means that all the targeted outputs and outcomes as a result of implementation of this Budget will need to be monitored. view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Having looked at the budget-making process since it started, I have three things I would like to mention for purposes of record and also for reminding ourselves that these are key stages in budget-making. Looking at the whole issue of public participation in the budget-making, it is very clear that the Budget and Appropriations Committee went out to consult Kenyans on this Budget. The input from Kenyans was well-documented. At the same time, it was very clear that participation by the Executive was not very well-documented in terms of what the input was and what recommendations they made. As we ... view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: As I conclude, I urge my fellow colleagues to pass this Bill so that by 1st July, 2016, this country has money released by the National Treasury so that implementation can start without time wastage. At times, it takes three months before we get the first allocation. In the past, the earliest we got the money for the NGCDF was around November or December. It will be very important that now that we are approaching the election year, this money is released on 1st July, 2016 so that on 2nd July, 2016, members can start using it. If that is ... view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also want to join Hon. Ng’eno in thanking the House for passing this important Bill. With the passage of this Bill, the county assemblies will be able to move to the next level and approve budgets of the county governments. With this Bill, each county government knows how much has been allocated to it. This Bill will ensure that proper budgeting is done at the county level and that will help in implementation. Just as we say at the national level, I think the challenge is in implementation of the Budget. I think both ... view
• 28 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view