Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I am surprised that the hon. Member is still standing! I had announced that, actually, I was skipped to allow that hon. Member to contribute. view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I can assure you that I have actually done a lot of research on this Paper and I will focus on the issues. 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
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Let me just start by thanking the Mediation Committee, led by our Chairman, hon. Musyimi. Looking at this report, I know where our chairman was coming from. As the Committee on Budge and Appropriations, we had said no to this proposal. I see a situation where our Chairman was put between a hard place and a rock. He had earlier said no and this is a situation where he must save this country. In the spirit of saving our country, our Chairman, hon. Mbadi and hon. Emaase went ahead and accepted to some of these proposals. So, in the same ... view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The last point relates to the adherence of the Constitution. You must have realized that for the last two days, it has been reported that some counties have submitted their budgets to the Controller of Budget and the Controller of Budget has rejected them. The Constitution is very clear that the Controller of Budget has no mandate or role in approving budgets. She has a role of only approving withdrawals from the approved budgets. The work of approving budgets is the work of the county assemblies and the National Assembly, possibly in consultation with the Senate. On that note, I ... view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I also rise to support the amendments, more so the ones to the Schedule, which talk about the CEO of the proposed Authority being hired competitively. That is actually the best practice. Bearing in mind the fact that these positions attract a lot of interest, I support the proposal that the 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 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: CEO be hired competitively, so that we can have the best brains taking charge of the Authority. view
• 22 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker! view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. As we all know, this is a House of records. It was previously ruled in this House that only the Chair of a Committee or the Deputy can respond to Statement requests. I do not know whether we are changing the rules. In many occasions, the Speaker directed that when the Chair and the Deputy are not present to respond to statement requests, Statements should either be deferred or the Leader of the Majority Party should be requested to go and look for them. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a House of records. We can check that one out. The HANSARD can bear me witness. view