{"id":82500,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/82500/?format=json","text_counter":323,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":" Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, I did not intend to say that the Chairman met the seller as a person. The information, in fact, he gave to the House is that they met as a Committee. The seller has written to the Embassy in Tokyo. He says: “I have seen a report released by the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations in which, under Section 3615 of the Report, I am reported to have informed the Committee that if I were to sell the property to Japanese, it can fetch only 600 million Yen. The statement is untrue as the property I sold to the Government of Kenya was 1.75 billion Yen and in my opinion, it is the best I would have offered due to the long standing relations with the Embassy of Kenya in Tokyo. Had the Embassy declined to take the offer---”"}