{"id":208165,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/208165/?format=json","text_counter":153,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Ojode","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":197,"legal_name":"Joshua Orwa Ojode","slug":"joshua-ojode"},"content":"Exactly! Exactly! Let me continue, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry advised the Director of Livestock Development: \"We would do a sub-lease, but we must follow Government procurement procedures\" Even the Head of Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet, Ambassador Francis Muthaura, said the following about that particular land:- \"Dr. Jacob Ole Miaron Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development. Refer- Baragoni Holding Ground. \"We have received information that your Ministry leased the land parcel amounting to 30,000 acres to a private company for 25 years without authority from the Treasury\". Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Head of the Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet wrote this letter saying:- \"The purpose of this letter is to request you, as a matter of urgency, to give basis on which you executed the lease agreement with a private company.\" This is the letter- Reference OP/Cabinet/1/66(A). The worst part of it is that even the sub-lease is leased at Kshs14.30 per acre!"}