Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to second the Procedural Motion. I have also taken time to go through this Bill and it is actually a very important Bill because it discusses in detail the dissolution of non-viable and inefficient businesses. Businesses are very important to this country. So, we need to get some of these Bills correct in this House. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, at the same time when you look at this Bill and you can see how voluminous it is--- Actually I have been carrying it since morning and some Members were wondering what it was, meaning that they have not even looked at it. You can see how big this Bill is and I do not believe that a Mover will be able to move it in the normal 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
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: 45 minutes. So, even for the 120 minutes, I am sure the Mover will be struggling to move it within the time. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, at the same time when you look at the Memorandum of Objects alone, it is about 46 pages and reading it alone will take you more than one hour without any explanation. So, I want to agree with the Mover that we need to really change the timing, so that as you have rightly put it, the Mover will take a maximum of 120 minutes to move and to reply 60 minutes; other Members will take a maximum of 90 minutes and then the Leader of Majority Party and the Leader of Majority Party at least a maximum ... view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to second. Thank you very much. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to also add my voice to this important Motion. From the outset, I support this Motion because the contribution of the boda boda industry in this country cannot be underrated. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Many things have been said by my colleagues, but I just want to summarize very quickly some of the areas that I think are very important in terms of what the boda boda industry has done to this country. If you look at the unemployment rate in this country, it is very high. But if you also look at what the boda bodas have done in terms of creating employment to our youth, this is something we must appreciate as a country. At the same time, because of engaging the young people, issues to do with insecurity or crime have ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the most important bit is that because of the boda bodas, those Kenyans who live in areas where the road network is quite poor are able now to access their homes. They are able to visit their relatives. That is because the boda bodas can maneuver the small panya routes to reach the homes. I am aware that a number of factories have been opened. For example, Honda, which is a motorcycle manufacturing company, has opened a local chapter to assemble motor cycles. That is very important because it creates work for our people and, at the ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, despite all those good things, you will realize that any time you visit our local hospitals in the counties; one or two wards have been set aside for people who are involved in boda boda accidents. This is contributing heavily in terms of budgetary allocations. Many hon. Members are contributing a lot to assist people who have been involved in accidents. You will find that in most cases, we are either giving Kshs10,000 or Kshs20,000 to support the medical bills. That means that if that sector is not properly regulated, then we will have a big problem. ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: It is quite expensive to get a licence. I have trained my youth in Kitui Central. I trained about 200 and spent over Kshs1 million because of the high expenses. So, I imagine that if it was subsidized to Kshs2,000 or Kshs1,500, then we can train a majority of those people and everybody will have a licence. At the end of the day, we can make sure that we minimize the accidents. At the same time, one of the challenges I faced as I did this is the fact that I had to ferry the young people from wherever they ... view