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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not see the need to deal with that point of order because it is more of another question. What I am trying to say is that, it is not every day that Government land or land owned by Government parastatals is for sale. The history of this land is that Bharti Airtel and IBM want to build their regional headquarters here. They want to do it so that they can employ thousands and thousands of our youth and create business access outsourcing outlets for us as a country. They approached the Head of State and the Prime Minister and asked that they be given land. It so happened that the piece of land that was available was the one owned by the Postal Corporation of Kenya. We then wrote for concurrence. If there was any objection within Government systems, it would have come out as a matter of question and caution and an audit would be asked. However, we wrote for concurrence. The board said that it was okay and I also gave concurrence as the Minister. I also wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance asking him to give concurrence in the matter because the land had been valued by the Government and, it was available and these people were not going to ask us for a price other than for the valuation. We felt that there was need for the Government to interact with Airtel and IBM and for our Vision 2030 projections. This is also allowed within the Public Procurement and Disposal Act. The Government can seek that kind of concurrence."
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