Benson Makali Mulu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this good opportunity to also support this Bill, which has been moved and seconded by my colleagues in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I support the Bill as presented even though I will be making some observations. As a House, we remember that around June, we went through the Committee of Supply and through it, we were able to supply what is going to be used in this financial year. But when the Finance Bill was presented to this House, we could not agree with some of the proposals by the ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: websites. If you want to read the reports, you can do it on the website and if you want, you can even print from your computer. In this era of iPads, and you can see even this Chamber has iPads, it is easier for me to read that report on my iPad rather than a hard copy. That is an area in which we can save a lot of resources for this country. The other important thing is the issue of reorganisation of Government through the Executive Order, which to some extent has created some independent departments. That has introduced ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We moved the figure from Kshs4.5 billion to Kshs9.4 billion, an addition of almost Kshs5 billion. So, if we wanted to help the counties, these are some of the areas we could target. We also provided additional money for construction of cancer centres and other activities like water so that when it comes to reducing the county government’s allocation, it will not be fair to touch on the equitable share because in terms of the Constitution and all the arrangements taking place, it is not an area we would want to go to. That is an area I would want ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to make a number of requests because we have been here for long. Some people are taking our positions yet we were here earlier than them. We should speak for only five minutes so that we conclude. There are only four of us. We have been waiting for long. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will try to be very brief so that I save five minutes for another Member. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: One of the things I want to appreciate is doing a report for three years. This is innovative and I urge PAC and PIC to go that way in terms of their reports. It will help this House in making decisions. I listened to the recommendations and I have categorised them into two: administrative and programmatic. Administrative recommendations include managers not providing required information to do auditing; failure to surrender imprest; a CEO acting for seven years and accounting officers not supporting the NG-CDF. I recommend that Hon. Kathuri’s Committee should not allow three months for the administrative issues to ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: If I do not talk about the issue of an officer acting in a position for seven years, I will be unfair to the process. The law only allows six months of acting and Hon. Nyikal can confirm that because he was a Permanent Secretary. It is either somebody is sacked or given the job. Members can attest that Mr. Mbuno has performed to expectation. They should either give him the job or redeploy him to another department. He is an economist and is in the mainstream Civil Service. Otherwise, it is very frustrating doing a job and you do ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Programmatic issues are many. They include incomplete projects; delays in release of bursaries; delay in release of resources and matters of oversight. Let me talk about the oversight committee which has not been talked about. The oversight committee is where the Members of Parliament appoint four people plus himself or herself to oversee the implementation of the NG- 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
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: CDF programmes. Unfortunately, in terms of the budget, it is only 1 per cent of the monitoring and evaluation budget. On average the monitoring and evaluation budget is about Kshs2 million. So, it translates to Kshs20,000 per year to do oversight. Automatically, that means we are killing oversight. So, Hon. Kathuri and colleagues, we need to propose an amendment immediately to the Act so that the oversight committee moves the 1 per cent of monitoring and evaluation budget to 1 per cent of the total allocation. In that case, we will have effective oversight. This can be done quickly because ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The other thing is incomplete projects. The reason we have incomplete projects is that when we changed the law, projects to do with health and roads were taken to the county governments, but we did not provide resources for that. I recommend that, if possible, the Government thinks of a conditional grant from the board to the implementing agencies so that if it is health, we give a conditional grant that is tied to a specific project like what Hon. Kibunguchy said. In that case, we will have the projects completed. Otherwise, if we leave them open like this and ... view