Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, Clause 74 of the Bill be amended— (1) in the marginal note by deleting the word “accreditation” and substituting therefor the words “a license”; (2) in sub clause (1)— (a) by deleting the word “accreditation” appearing immediately after words “revoke the” in the introductory phrase and substituting therefor the word “license”; 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
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: (b) in paragraph (a) by deleting the word “accreditation” appearing after the words “Board that the” and substituting therefor the word “licensing”; (c) paragraph (b) by deleting the word “accreditation” appearing immediately after the words “criteria for” and substituting therefor the word “licensing”; (d) in paragraph (c) by deleting the word “accredited” appearing immediately after the words “they were” and substituting therefor the word “licensed”; (e) in paragraph (e) by deleting the word “accreditation” appearing immediately after the words “conditions for” and substituting therefore the word “licensing”. (3) in sub-clause (2) by deleting the word “accreditation” appearing immediately after the ... view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Yes. I support the Senate’s amendment because it makes the whole thing clearer. view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, clause 130 of the Bill be amended by inserting the words “conservation and” immediately after the words “for the”. view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to oppose the borrowing of the money because there are some facts which we cannot overlook. The JICA has given us a very good deal in terms of the interest rate of this money and the repayment period of 34 years. They have also given us a very good grace period of six years. view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: There are fundamental questions which have not been answered in the process of trying to determine whether that money should be borrowed or not. The first question is the issue of capacity. The money is being borrowed so that this country can build what they are calling a Second Container Terminal. Already, there is another terminal which has just been completed. We do not know whether it is being used or not because it has not been officially commissioned. This is a case where we are being told to borrow money to do another terminal and yet, there is another ... view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: programme. The question is: If we are going to get a new port, what is going to be the impact of Lamu compared to Kilindini? Is it going to be a situation where the large capacity needs to be shared? This is because some of the traffic will be moved to Lamu and there might be no need to have additional capacity at KPA. view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The third issue which is important is the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). From where I stand, my understanding of that project is that, once the railway is completed, it is expected that the issue of efficiency in terms of moving containers from Mombasa upwards will improve. Then, it means we do not need a lot of storage capacity in Mombasa before the containers will be moved to Nairobi. The question is: If efficiency is going to improve through the SGR, then why do we need additional capacity at KPA? You realize then that it is not clear. view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The other issue which is important is competitive advantage. You will realize of late that Kenya, as a country, is losing competitive advantage. I have read in the daily newspapers and it has been discussed that we have lost because Uganda is going to do their own railway through Dar-es-Salaam. Rwanda is proposing to do the same which means that a lot of this traffic which we have been expecting to go through Mombasa will now be diverted to Dar-es-Salaam. So, what is the impact of this diversion? Does it not mean that, at the end of the day, a ... view
• 7 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The other important issue which we need to consider is public debt as a country. We might not want to accept it but Kenya is getting to a level where the issue of public debt needs to be of concern to all of us. I get very worried when we do not take this matter seriously because that money is cheap. But the fact that we are borrowing is going to increase our public debt. The other day, when we passed the Supplementary Estimates, I remember one of the important statistics there was the interest rates that we are now ... view