Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I assure the Leader of the Majority Party that this side is well-represented. We are up to the task. view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: It is just the leadership that is absent. We can still sit on those seats and do the work. This is a House of rules, traditions and procedures. Under normal circumstances, after the President gives the State of the Nation Address, we are supposed to debate it as a House for four sittings, as the Leader of the Majority Party has said. He has put it very well. We just need to pass this Procedural Motion and start debating the Presidential Speech. With those remarks, I beg to second. view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the chance to also add my voice to this important debate on the President’s Address. It is actually a constitutional requirement. It is important that the President was able to address the House. I just want to pick about three items from his Address because of the time limitation even though I would have wanted to talk a lot about other things. Let me focus on the issue of national unity. In terms of the national unity, the President emphasised in details on what is expected in terms of Kenya remaining ... view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: The other important issue which was mentioned in the Address, which I think is important, is that of the small and medium enterprises credit scheme. We are all aware that what we call the micro-enterprises are suffering because of lack of credit. The credit scheme which will be introduced specifically for them will be very good for this country. That was another very important part of his Address. The President gave a lot of time to the issue of corruption, but I think it was an anti- climax. I think Kenyans expected to see action being taken against those people ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I second this Procedural Motion. The facts are very clear as presented by the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party. So, I second. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: On point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With all due respect to Hon. Junet, I think he should apologise. He stood on a point of order and started contributing. Instead of appreciating that you had given him a chance, he is now harassing my friend. view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me thank Hon. Mulyungi for bringing up this matter and at the same time inform the Leader of the Majority Party that Hon. Mulyungi and Hon. Charity Ngilu were never Member of Parliament or governor respectively, when this matter started being debated. The only people who were in this place at that point were and Hon. Rachael Nyamai and I. We even signed the agreement at one point. What we are saying is that this is a resource which is important to both Kitui County and the nation. Our interest as Kenyans, not even as ... view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance. I thank you for your direction in terms of the way forward. But even as you advise that, I think this is a dignified House. The reason we are called Hon. Members is because we are actually that. I request my colleagues, who are Hon. Members, to, please, stop being carried away by that space when they go to media houses. We have seen many of our colleagues who spend their time there and they are now in their houses. They are not in this House. Let us just ... view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to add my voice to this important Motion on the Senate amendments to the Irrigation Bill. I want to agree with the Committee because I have looked through the amendments. First of all, it is good that the Senate did a bit of cleaning. I think they have done some substantive amendments, which I agree with the Committee that we cannot accept. One of them is a situation where the CoG wants to nominate members to boards and become an active player in the irrigation exercise. I want to agree with the Chairman ... view