Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: because we represent people, there are many complaints about the way recruitment for enumerators has been done. If we start on the wrong footing, obviously, we will not get the good results at the end of the day. I urge technical officers in charge of the activity, more so the population census, to make sure that we do not allow Kenyans to engage in side shows. In my village, if on the night of 25th August, I find that the person knocking on my door is somebody I have never seen, while I know that there are young men and ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this debate. From the outset, I support this Division of Revenue (No. 2) Bill as published. My colleagues have said a lot in terms of what can be said about this Bill. I just want to fill a few gaps. I want to state some facts that cannot change. If you look at this Bill, Clause 5 says that, in cases of shortfalls in revenue collection, the national Government will take care of that shortfall. That means that whatever amount that will be allocated by this ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Why is that clause important? This clause is very important because if you take the example of last year, the projection was that the country was to collect about Kshs1.6 trillion. At the end of the day, that figure was revised downwards to Kshs1.44 trillion. Meaning that whatever budget we had done which was aimed at the Kshs1.6 million, had to be revised downwards. As you revise downwards, the national Government meets that shortfall. The second point which is very important is about Article 219 of our Constitution. It says that whatever amount we allocate for the county governments must ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: budgeting. We have no choice; we must pay for the Kenya Defence Forces. We have no choice; we must pay for security. So, even as we budget, we do not have a lot of room to play around. That is why you see in this table, the only amount from the national Government which was available for sharing between the National Government and the County Government was only Kshs693 billion out of an expected total collection of Kshs1.877 trillion. Out of what is available for sharing, the Kshs693billion, the National Assembly allocated Kshs330 billion to the county governments when you ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: grant which the national Government has already given to the county governments be converted to equitable share and then we have a solution to the problem. Otherwise, they are talking about Kshs335 billion while in reality they are getting Kshs374.81 billion. That will be my recommendation. We may need to think about bringing on board more of the conditional grants being converted to equitable share so that we do not have this problem. As I conclude, I just want to say that this idea of the two House going to court is not proper. As leaders of this country we ... view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Even as I support this amendment, I want to make the following observations. I wish the Chair could listen to me. The first one if you look at d(i) and d(ii) in terms of who is supposed to be in this body, under (i) you say professional qualifications in the fields of science and technology, law and trade. Under (ii), we have the same thing of professional qualifications in law and human resources. We really plead with the Chair to change one of the two so that we do not have “law” in both ... view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The other observation is that the requirement is that you can have a minimum of three Board members and a maximum of nine. I have seen a trend in this country where people always go for the highest. We need to bear in mind that these things are very expensive. I would wish that we could just go for three. These are boards for policy and strategic direction. They are not operational boards. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I agree with Hon. Millie on the election of the vice-chair. The best practice is that when you meet for the first meeting, you elect a vice-chair who remains for the term of the Board or part of the term of the Board, but not electing a vice-chair in every meeting. So, I support the amendment that the vice-chair is elected either in the first or in the second meeting but in a specific time other than it being done in every meeting. That will be tedious and not a good practice. On the ... view
• 2 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you and I support the amendment. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. You have put it right that we are in the Second Reading. The Second Reading is not just debate. At the end of the day we will vote “yes” or “no”. The issue of the money for the Senate has been clearly explained by Hon. Mbadi, Hon. Millie and the Chairman. This money was there this year and we removed it during the Supplementary Estimates. The reason we removed it is because of what is written in this amendment - “subject to regulations”. From my experience, we are likely to be doing the same towards the ... view