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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not purport to speak for Mr. Mbuvi but I think we will be setting a very bad precedent in this House if we want to condemn Members before hearing them. We cannot know why Mr. Mbuvi walked out. He could have been pressed for other issues. So I think until and unless he comes to either substantiate or support his documentary evidence to show whether it was forgery or not, this House cannot take any allegation. This issue was not listed on the Order Paper, so you cannot say that he had the hindsight on whether the Statement would be delivered or not. Besides that, I want to request that even when we were asking these questions, I think the Chair will recall there were many upstanding Members. This is because this issue of stimulus has evoked many emotions. In fact, because of the benefits we expect it to trickle down to our constituencies. It is a matter we cannot leave uninterrogated. I would want to ask the hon. Minister that the fact that the stimulus projects as regards market stalls has been lagging behind all other stimulus projects, it has been attributed to the fact that they have centralized all the systems of encashment of vouchers and everything else. Contractors have to travel all the way from Turkana with vouchers to come and get payments in Nairobi for them to go back and complete projects. What action is the Minister taking to ensure that because they must lead by example - and the fact that we are going to county governance where his docket is - that they will decentralize the management of these funds including the payment of contractors at the constituency level if not at the district level?"
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