Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Sorry, Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: Report of the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) held in Kampala, Uganda from 22nd to 29th September 2019. view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support the Motion. I start by thanking the Committee for the work it has done of interviewing the commissioners and approving the list as it was presented to them. 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
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: In terms of qualification, because I have looked at the names, you realise that the people proposed to be commissioners are qualified in terms of experience and academics. What I like most is that there is a mix in terms of the elderly and the young ones. The elderly will provide the experience and the young ones will provide the energy required to move the Commission. The other encouraging thing is the fact that our colleagues who have been in this House in the past have managed to get into this list. We have three of them. I believe with ... view
• 13 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: have a situation where Kenyans will be mobilised as Kenyans. At times I wonder why Kenyans cannot borrow a leaf from our neighbours, the Tanzanians. When you go there, you hardly care about who comes from where. They are all Tanzanians, think like Tanzanians and talk like Tanzanians. Since they are our good neighbours, we need to start thinking in that direction. One thing the Commission must take into consideration once it is approved to realise national cohesion and integration is the issue of divisive electoral processes. As long as we have electoral processes where the loser cannot accept that ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me start by thanking Hon. Mbadi, the Leader of the Minority Party, for bringing this Bill to this House. At the outset, I support it and to me, it should have been passed along time ago. Before I put my points across, I want to appreciate all the initiatives that have been taken by earlier commissions and other people who have been considering this matter. I want to appreciate the Cockar Commission which recommended that former MPs who were in this House before 1984 be given a one-off payment of Kshs1 million. I also want ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: country before us did a very good job. But when you look at their living conditions, you ask yourselves questions as to whether you really want to be in this House or not. I think this is the driving force behind this Bill. It is proposing that since those MPs cannot earn a living pension of Kshs100,000 because of lack of a legal framework, as Hon. Members, we are being requested to pass this Bill so that it can become an Act of Parliament. By doing so, it will pave way for payment of that living pension of Kshs.100,000. So, ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Since the former MPs are our colleagues, we need to get this law passed as soon as possible, so that they can start benefitting. That is because the element of age is making most of them get into a situation of very poor health. Some of them are dying and it is not good when the sitting MPs cannot help their colleagues who are out there. Some are even dying and it will not be good for us, the sitting members of Parliament, not to help our colleagues who are out there. They might want to benefit from this even ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: As I conclude, when you look generally at the way we use our resources as a country, there is so much which is going to what I call wastage. Examples have been given. When you look at the kind of money going to areas which are not priority areas in terms of corruption and misdirection of resources, I think demanding only Kshs20 million to cater for our colleagues who served this country faithfully is not demanding too much. We really need to support this Bill. I remind Members that all of us are going to be former Members of Parliament ... view