Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me add my voice to this debate because it is a very interesting one. At the same time, I remind the House that this House passed the Appropriations Act, which approved expenditure for this financial year. Even as we are discussing the Finance Bill, which is supposed to be helping us to know where to raise the revenue from, you need to bear in mind that the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: expenditure side is already approved by the House. To some extent, we are in a situation where we have approved expenditure, but we are yet to approve how the resources will be raised. As we move forward, I think it will be important, through the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and his Members, to advise this House how we can have a situation where we can pass the Finance Bill the same time with the Appropriations Bill because in case we do not approve this Bill, it means the projected Kshs30 billion will not be ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Another good thing about this Finance Bill is that it is reducing tax on imported timber from 10 per cent to zero. We all know that we are going through very hard times in terms of 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
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: deforestation. This law is good because it allows more timber to come from outside the country. At the same time, as we implement this Finance Bill, we need to encourage more Kenyans to do afforestation, so that within a few years, we grow our forests to a level where even if we start harvesting our timber, we will not have deforestation problems. So, this is also a good move. There is the issue of export levy on hides and skins. I agree with the Vice-Chair of the Committee. This is an area about which we need to encourage our people. ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me also join my colleagues in appreciating the resolutions because they will take us far. However, before I go to the details, I would like to inform the House what the Leader of the Majority Party talked about Senate Mashinani . Indeed, the Senate is sitting in my county. He has only seen the negative reporting. I want to confirm that very many good things are happening in Kitui County. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: It is unfortunate that, as usual, our journalists believe that if you report positive things, they will never find their way in the media. So, they only focus on the negatives. Yesterday, I spent the whole day in Kitui and I want to confirm to this House that very many good things are happening. Our business people are very happy with the Senate Mashinani being in Kitui. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: On the resolutions, I am happy to hear my Chairman say that the Parliamentary Budget Office will work on a framework in terms of how to implement these resolutions. We require a lot of data to implement those resolutions. We require evidence on what has been done. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you are aware we have a caucus in this Parliament, which I chair called Parliamentary Caucus on Evidence-Informed Oversight and Decision-making. It focuses on use of evidence to say what has been achieved or not. So, as we move forward, my appeal to the Chairpersons is that they will have to work closely with the Budget Office. At the same time, there is a department in the Executive which is critical to what we want to do. I see that we have challenge in terms of resourcing that department. I am talking about the Directorate of Monitoring and ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The other thing you must note is that every quarter we also get budget monitoring from the Controller of Budget. However, when you look at those reports because they come to this House, it is all financial reporting. There is nothing on monitoring and evaluation from what you see. I am so happy when you talk about outputs and outcomes because that is the way to go. However, they never discuss them. So, there is a gap and we need to streamline and ensure we have a smooth way. All stakeholders need to be steered towards that direction. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The other day you saw the Auditor-General lamenting that his reports have so much information which we hardly use. So, we also need to bring on board the reports of the Auditor- General into all these discussions and it will make budget implementation help Kenyans. This is because Kenyans out there want to see the outputs, outcomes and the impact. Unless we show them that, they will think we are just doing routine assignments year in, year out, and that does not benefit them. view