Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The other area that we need to caution MDAs on is their tendency to push for financing of development programmers through the Supplementary Estimates. I cannot be told that people cannot plan for development. Financing of development projects can never be an emergency. If they want to do a road, it is known that they have a whole year to plan for it. If you want to do a water project, you have a whole year to plan for it. It cannot be that when you want to do something, you tell us that you have realised that you need ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Motion as amended. view
• 6 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wanted to find out whether we are in a Committee of Supply. I hope this is just a general debate. We can just debate and then later come to the Committee of Supply. I need to be guided, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 6 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me also add my voice to this important debate. I join my colleagues in appreciating the hard work which the departmental committees have gone through to make sure that we have this Budget. This year, we were able to have serious debate on the budgets of the various Ministries and Departments. I want to focus on areas where my colleagues have not mentioned. Hon. Mbadi has talked about pending bills. I want to briefly talk about stalled projects and programmes. In this country, we have a lot of projects which have stalled. Some ... view
• 6 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The other point I want to talk about just briefly is on the public debt. We all know now as Kenyans that every Kshs100 collected, you find Kshs66 is being used to pay public debt. What that says is that we have only about Kshs36 remaining for other important national activities. I am sure this position cannot hold for long if as a country we want to develop. I really urge that even as we move forward, we know the international indicators are showing that we are still safe but we need to start being careful about how we are ... view
• 6 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I got very concerned when I heard the contribution of the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health on the Level 5 hospitals. We started listing them as Level 5 hospitals in 2014. We have done this for about five years. Just to come and say at this point that we do not have clear framework on how to monitor use of these resources is a bit worrying. We need to take this seriously as a House with the money which is released to Level 5 hospitals. The question I ask myself is we have been releasing this money every ... view
• 6 Jun 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
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. You are right. I am standing in for my Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, Hon. Koinange, who has requested me to come and stand in for him because he is held up somewhere. I am a Member of that Committee. If you look at these miscellaneous amendments, you will find that the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security has three areas which we considered. The first one is the District and Provinces Act of 1992. The second one is the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act, 2010 and the third ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: to prepare regulations so that we have a smooth operationalisation of the Act. As a Committee, we did not have an issue with this. I urge Hon. Members to support us so that we allow the CS to come up with regulations which will be approved by the Committee on Delegated Legislation. On the second Act, that is the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act, we got submissions from one stakeholder. The focus on this amendment is making reference to the definition of a magistrate so that that definition of a magistrate in the Act has the same meaning as that in ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: the board. In that case, we will make sure that we have no issues because we could have some gaps which terrorists would like to take advantage of. This will avoid issues of gaps coming up and people taking advantage. As a Committee, we have agreed that even though some stakeholders have expressed some reservations with this amendment, we think it is a good amendment and it will help the war against terrorism. We will support this position but we will be very specific that the NGOs dealing with counterterrorism issues will be required to report to the Centre. They ... view