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    "id": 195658,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 22,
        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I commend the Minister for Finance for a very comprehensive Ministerial Statement, although it does not address a single issue that I raised with him. It is in the public domain, I am glad that the Minister himself talks about matters that are in the public domain, that last year, following a State visit by His Excellency the President to Libya, his then Minister for Trade and Industry, Dr. Kituyi, addressed a press conference at which he said that as a result of the visit by His Excellency to Libya, the Government had found a buyer in Libya for the Grand Regency Hotel. I would have expected the Minister to shed some light on that, because Dr. Kituyi, in that statement, did say that the hotel would not be made available to be bought by Kenyans. That is a matter of public interest. Secondly, the Minister completely failed to tell the House on what basis there is a receivership on the Grand Regency Hotel if the hotel has been handed back to CBK. What would be the basis of appointing Ernst and Young to manage the hotel if the receivership that had been placed against Kamlesh Pattni's company had been vacated following the handing over of the hotel? Would it not have been for the Government to hand over the management of the hotel to people who are qualified to manage it pending the sale if, indeed, the sale is intended? Would not April 29, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 723 Kenya Utalii have been the best placed organisation to run this hotel other than Ernst and Young?"
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