Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I must register my disappointment because it looks like people must shout to talk in this House. Some of us, by nature, are not of the character of shouting although we are politicians. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I support this amendment. It is important for us to have democracy in this country, more so, party democracy. We all know that democracy is expensive. It is important that political parties are funded by the State. It is a way of promoting democracy and maturing it. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I thank Hon. Wamalwa for coming up with this amendment. When you look at this country, it is obvious that as we move to the future, coalitions will be the way forward. All parties will have to be in coalitions. We have realised that for the three years that the two big coalitions have been in existence only ODM, TNA and the URP have been getting funding. As it was said, Wiper Democratic Movement gets the money and we have to account for it through ODM. At the end of the day, the accountability aspect of this money is with ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: The second issue is the way the money is shared within coalitions. It is to some extent through MoUs which are gentlemen’s agreement. By passing this amendment, we will make sure that there is a law which clearly stipulates how this money should be shared. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: The issue of five elected Members of the National Assembly, three Senators and three Governors and 10 MCAs is important. As it was said, in a situation where you only allow one elected Member, we will be promoting briefcase parties in this country. Time has come for us to have serious parties which can be represented in this country and, more so, parties which can have at least 24 county offices. I support this amendment and urge my colleagues to support it for purposes of ensuring that we have mature political party democracy. view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wanted to support this amendment but I am not sure whether the Question has already been carried. view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: In my view, this amendment is very important because while the Cabinet Secretary will be privy to the information, I think it is important that Parliament is briefed in terms of the nature of this confidential information so that at the end of the day, it does not become a rubber stamp. view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Chair is trying to gag debate by saying it has nothing to do with budget. You have to realize that to get a PhD, you are a general academician. So, when topping you have to take it up and handle it properly. This goes to Moses, who thinks that law is the only thing that matters in this world. Actually, law is only cramming. view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Anyway, let me just make my contribution to these amendments. My first point is what the Chair has said about her not being in the mood of fighting and because of this I believe the Committee Members also have let go of some of the things they thought were important that raised a bit of concern. If we make laws and are scared of saying the truth because we do not want to seem to be antagonising the Senate that will not be good for this country. All said and done, I go by the Committee’s recommendation. The electronic version ... view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Under Clause 32, the Senate proposes that we increase the penalty from Kshs1 million to Kshs10 million. The Committee has not supported that amendment. I look at this from two perspectives. The first perspective is that a very low penalty of Kshs1 million would encourage people to commit that mistake and say they could always pay. A very high penalty of Kshs10 million will bar people from doing what is supposed to be done and that could open the gates for corruption. People may say that since the penalty is very high, they would rather be corrupt and pay a ... view