Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The cost should be minimal. I have seen the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee walking into the Chamber, and I am sure if he is presented with a request to make sure the item receives a budget, it should be very easy. view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: With those many remarks, I support this Bill. I urge my colleagues that we fast-track it, so that it becomes an Act of Parliament. I really appreciate. Thank you. view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second this Motion of the Second Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2020/2021. If you may indulge me, my colleagues talked without masks. I plead with you that I remove my mask. I will be brief because my Chairperson has already done a good job in moving this Bill. I want to start from where he has stopped. As a House, what we need to ask ourselves is: In terms of the timing of this Second Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2020/2021, is it really helping this country? We have ... view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The last point is reallocation of the budget or re-prioritisation of the budget. This is important. In budgeting, we start getting it right when we say something is of priority than another one then we move resources to where the priority is. With those many remarks, I second this important Motion. Thank you. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to report to the House that, as a result of your instructions that the Majority Leader chairs a meeting between us and the Cabinet Secretary, yesterday, we had a whole day meeting with the Cabinet Secretary and his team. Actually, all the Questions and Statements were responded to in yesterday’s meeting. Through your intervention, the Cabinet Secretary is now behaving. I think it is good that when we call for the next meeting, I am sure he will be there and we can ask the Member from Moyale to come and face the Cabinet ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, by the time I was giving the Statement, the Vice-Chair had not come. But this is a House of records. We need to get it clear that it is not the Cabinet Secretary who invites Hon. Members to our Committee sittings. It is our own secretariat. We need to understand the rules. Even though Members are complaining, it is unfortunate because as I said, yesterday we had eight hours with the Cabinet Secretary and his team and seven Hon. Members were not able to make it to the meeting. I do not know whether it is our secretariat ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will start by joining my colleagues to appreciate the Chairperson and the Vice- Chairperson of this Committee for the job they have done in moving this important Bill. I want to agree with those who are saying that this Bill is one of the most important Bills in this House. That is also confirmed by the kind of public participation it attracts. If you look at those who contributed to this Bill through public participation, it is a long list of important institutions and individuals in this country. This is the only Bill ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: proposal, but it is being made only because we are not honest as a community. You remember at one point when Kibaki was the President of this country, he came up with the clarion call of ‘ kulipaushuru ni kujitegemea ’. But what he did, and that was the secret, is that he made sure that any money collected was used for the benefit of Kenyans. Application of the tax collected was very efficient and effective. So, even as talk about giving informants more money, it is a temporary solution. The long-term solution is to let everyone be convinced that ... view
• 17 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Chairman. I do not have my card. This has never happened in eight years. I just do not know where my card is. view
• 17 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: That is why you have not heard my voice. Thank you very much for giving me a chance. Just to help us follow this matter, I would urge the Chair to repeat what he said while papers were being shuffled, so that we can be with him on the same page throughout the amendment. We are also following the figures. I would also urge that he be kind enough to say something about the underlying policy shift or policy implication. When he said we are moving an activity away from the field back to the Ministry, he must say something ... view