Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1761 to 1770 of 2344.

• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to second this Motion. Just as the Chairman of the Committee has said, the Budget and Appropriations Committee took a lot of time to discuss these Supplementary Estimates, as this is the second one. We support the submission by Treasury in relation to the increment they have done in terms of changing money for particular departments and Ministries. Even as we do that, as my Chairman has said, we have a number of concerns. It is important to put these concerns on record. My first concern relates to Article ... view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before we get to that--- view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I want to read the section which provides the Committee with the powers. The laws says--- view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Properly guided, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As we move forward, the other issue that is of concern is the issue of implementation time. As we pass these Supplementary Estimates – I am pleading with the House to approve them – we have about a week to the closure of the financial year. The challenge is that, because of the short timeframe that we have to implement it, the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) might rush processes to use this money. This is where opportunities for rent-seeking crop up. In the future, we need to make sure that we approve Supplementary ... view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Another issue of concern is that we have realised in this Supplementary Budget that monies have been moved from spending agency to other. Initially, this was supposed to be implemented by a particular spending entity and accounted for by that entity. However, in this Supplementary Budget, we have moved money from one agency to another, which means that we are changing the implementing and accounting agency at the same time. This is a serious thing and we need to make sure that it does not happen again. What it means is that it will cause confusion in terms of implementation. ... view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: The Supplementary Estimates have increases in terms of funding, but we have not been told anything in terms of outputs and changing targets. Whereas we are increasing money for infrastructural development, we should be told that increasing the Ministry’s budget by Kshs1 billion, the Ministry’s output will change by a certain percentage. In this case, that has not happened. Unless that happens, we will continue to provide additional funds to Government spending entities without getting value for that money. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained ... view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have been given an additional Kshs198 billion in this Supplementary Budget. This is not a small amount of money. Moving forward, as a House, we need to demand that, through the Controller of Budget, we be told in future how this money was spent and what targets were achieved as a result. view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to second the Motion. view
• 23 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Thank you for giving me a chance. view
• 23 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Thank you for giving me a chance. view