Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 761 to 770 of 2345.

• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks, I thank you for the chance. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Report of Parliament of Kenya Delegation to the 49th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Africa region Conference held in Gaborone, Botswana from 13th -22nd August 2018. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. 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
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I rise on a point of order in terms of misinformation. Hon. Chris is a well-schooled person. When he says agriculture is equal to maize, I get concerned. It is important. Is he in order to mislead Kenyans that agriculture is equal to maize? view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: (Kitui Central, WDM-K) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me also state clearly that I support the amendment to the County Allocation of Revenue Act. It has been said many times that the reason we are doing this is because our development partners have provided additional funds to the tune of Kshs3.74 billion to be used by county governments. What that implies is that we have to change the colour now that we have changed the Division of Revenue Act. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: These resources are in form of grants. As a country it is important that we appreciate this kind of support. We are all talking about public debt which is becoming unmanageable. The advantage of grants is that they are more of friend donations which will not be paid but will assist our people in terms of agriculture and infrastructural development in municipalities. view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Generally, this is a good amendment Bill and we need to support it. However, I have made a number of observations. One of the key observations that was stated is that there is a disconnect between the budget cycle and the point that we are signing these agreements. As a House, we need to urge Treasury which provides leadership in signing these agreements with our development partners, to ensure that since they also oversee the budget cycle timelines, they should ensure that the two processes are harmonized, so that any time they sign agreements with the development partners, the timing ... view
• 6 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: The other important point for Members to note is the issue of grants which are going to the county governments. The agriculture sector’s grant is supposed to be overseen in terms of implementation by the crop department at the ministry headquarters. While we are saying it is good that Senators and county assemblies oversee the use of these resources, while we are saying that we need a monitoring and evaluation framework to monitor this, I think there is a bit of a gray area. While it is very clear that money that goes to counties through the County Allocation of ... view