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"content": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I want to raise a point of order under Standing Order No.36 and move:- THAT, the debate be now adjourned. I ask you to use your discretion to postpone this debate to a later date, maybe in the next Session for the following reasons: One, if you actually look at what we have before us, it has the potential of being another Anglo-Leasing scam. I am not saying that the Minister is up to anything bad. The Minister is a very good friend of mine, but if you actually calculate the amounts involved in the proposed scheme, you will realise that they are astronomical. For example, at a very conservative estimate, if you talk about a traffic flow of 10,000 vehicles per day, which is a very conservative estimate, then he will be making Kshs97 million per day. At a less conservative estimate, he will be making Kshs974 million a day. This means that there will be absolutely no money that will even be put into investment. This proposed company will be basically reaping benefits without putting in anything. It will be making about Kshs29 billion per month. If you look at some of the things at page 11 - the Minister has done a good thing by giving us some sort of highlights into the contract - the contract itself is very voluminous, and the wordings that we were given are very vague. For instance; for example it says: âThe concessionaire will maintain the road and expand it whenever necessaryâ. We do not know what âwhenever necessaryâ means. He could expand it on the 29th year and he will have 30 years. So, I would urge that the House postpones this debate to a later date when we have looked at it properly, so that if there is a problem, we fix it before we give our approval."
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