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Sunday, June 18, 2023 –Labour Cabinet Secretary CS Florence Bore on Sunday, June 18, cleared the air over her involvement in the controversial purchase of a sh 120 Million Karen mansion.
In the statement seen by this desk, she confirmed that the acquisition process was on a legitimate course.
Bore noted that the two parties entered into a 90-day agreement in which she argued that she had paid a down payment of 10 per cent to move in.
The CS, therefore, refuted claims that she forcefully moved into the mansion insisting that she entered into a lawful buyer-and-seller agreement and was meant to pay the remaining amount in due time.
“I entered into an agreement to purchase the property at a negotiated and agreed purchase price. Resultantly, I signed my part of the agreement for sale and transmitted the agreement through my lawyers to the vendor’s lawyers for signing on their part.
“Their lawyers acknowledged receipt of the signed agreement for sale by stamping on the forwarding letter by my advocates,” she listed in her statement.
It was, however, unclear whether the agreement was anchored on a sh 90 million or sh 120 million price tag.
The controversy began after the MP’s wife claimed that she was shocked to find a heavy security presence at her house in Karen after she sent a contractor to facilitate the cleaning exercise at the mansion.
“The dramatised and sensational allegations are fabricated to unlawfully dissociate from the agreement ostensibly because they have found a “better deal”.
“The transaction was a private engagement between a willing seller and a willing buyer, both parties duly represented by lawyers in total conformity with the law. The media pitch was therefore unwarranted and ancillary to the transaction,” further read her statement.
The contractor was allegedly assaulted and locked out of the premises, which was claimed to have already been occupied by the Cabinet Secretary.