Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you know I am not hon. Musimba but in this House we have actually had cases where people are sent by hon. Members to come and represent them. Unless you are demanding a letter, we are in touch with Musimba since technology is quite advanced. view
• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I agree but it is noted in this House that even though some of these amendments are championed by individual Members of Parliament, interests are shared by a number of Members. I want to support it because it makes sense in terms of law making. I agree with you that I do not have a letter but that should be noted because it is very important. view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: It is a point of order. With due respect to the Leader of Majority Party, this House is discussing revenue raising strategies. When he starts to discuss issues of corruption--- In terms of relevance, is he in order? view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to also contribute to this Bill. When I look at this Bill my expectation was that after it was withdrawn, it would have taken care of things which Members were not happy with but I realise that it is exactly the same as the other Bill we were discussing. What I would say is that, looking at this Bill I would summarise it as poison coated with sweet nuts. There are some good things in this Bill but they are very few. For example, when you look at the ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue is that of the political parties. You know when you put the issues of political parties here with what is happening currently people might think that we have an opportunity to actually improve that law and make sure that we entrench democracy in this country, but when you look at the other amendments which are proposed in this Bill, some are really very bad. I am happy that the Leader of Majority Party has said that he is going to withdraw the proposed The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: amendments to the Public Benefits Organisation Act and the Public Finance Management Act because to me I think these two require serious amendments and they cannot be captured under this kind of law; the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act. view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, at the same time let me combine the issue of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission and that of the Kenya Ports Authority. When you look at the amendment to the Kenya Ports Authority Act, it aims to increase the board members from two to five. When you look at the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, the proposal is to make the commissioners work full time. We have actually said, and I belong to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, that this country needs to think about moving from these many commissioners who do work which should be done ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Actually, that is what I propose. Instead of talking about full time commissioners I think we need to move to that direction of part time commissioners and reduce the number and I have said that many times in this Chamber. If we go that way, we will get value for money and Kenyans will have much more money going to development as compared to money going to recurrent expenditure. view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: With that let me also allow him to talk. It is a great honour. view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view