Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support this amendment. We have said many times that this idea of a single treasury account will be very good for this country. Any attempt to have it at the county level is very commendable. I support the amendment. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I thank Hon. Limo for bringing this amendment, more so, on the part of opening revenue collection accounts. Many county governments misuse their revenue. The proposed account will streamline things. That is very critical because all the other accounts will be at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). The only account which is allowed not to be at the CBK is the Imprest Bank Account, which is good for accountability. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support this amendment. We need to note, as a House, that IBEC has become very important in terms of determining how much goes to the counties and how much remains at the national level in terms of the division of revenue. Their inclusion will be very critical in resolving some of the challenges we are facing when it comes to the Division of Revenue Bill. I support. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Let me join the Leader of the Majority Party in supporting New Clause 9A. When you look at the whole budget-making process, the process kicks off around August. That process is done by the National Treasury all the way up to January. They submit the document to us by 15th February, which means they have about four full months to look at the budget and then push the budget to us by 15th February. We have only about two weeks to give them feedback with recommendations. The whole exercise of increasing the period to 30 days is going to help ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I also want to support this amendment. We must note that we are very late in getting this in place. A country like Uganda, which is our young brother, has already done it. What is happening is that any time we pass a budget, we do so before we have passed what we call the revenue-raising strategies. So, we are bound to have a shortfall in the budget in case the House fails to approve the revenue-raising strategies. That is why you see the Finance Bill, at times, becomes such an important document when ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. This is a very important amendment to the Bill and I want to support it. When you look at the county executives, some of the CECs in charge of finance are PhD holders and others have Master’s degrees. The same budget prepared at that level is subjected to MCAs who, in some of the counties, might not have the same level of qualifications. So, this amendment is going to ensure that county assemblies have technical people who can look at the budget keenly and analyse it and then advise the MCAs, so that the ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I support, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I want to raise a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, before I support. Maybe the Chair could clarify. I know in other documents, we do not call it county budget policy statement. It is called the county fiscal paper. So, do we want to retain that consistency or do we want to change the name? It might cause confusion. I think it is called county fiscal paper. Generally, I think what is happening is that just as we do as the BAC, the Chair wants the same thing, so that county assemblies will have a committee like ours ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the Chairman might have to make some amendment. It is called the County Fiscal Strategy Paper. view