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    "content": "That is what we are saying. We should not allow you to borrow if you cannot invest transparently the money that you are borrowing. That is one of the principles in debt management and borrowing. If you do not invest transparently, do not borrow. We know that there is no transparency in most of the projects that have been done in this country. The Auditor-General has questioned and put grey areas in the amounts borrowed versus the things that have been done from borrowing. Today, this Parliament will review the debt ceiling to Kshs10 trillion. What assurances do we have that there will be transparency in the investments that will be made out of the borrowing that we are making? Secondly, this country has been on the penchant of supply driven developments instead of demand driven developments. I heard the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Infrastructure saying that when they went to China, some Chinese guys told them that they could build for us an expressway like theirs. The Chinese guys showed them pictures. The CS called the President and told him there are some guys who could build an expressway and he accepted it. Was there a demand for that expressway or it was because there was a supply for the expressway? Many of these projects are supply driven. Chinese come here and tell cabinet secretaries that they can do certain projects and that this country would make a certain amounts of money, and people accept. We have a road in Mombasa that it is being built at Kshs1 billion a kilometre; a road that leads to nowhere: a Kshs1 billion a kilometre because a Chinese came and said that they can build this road using this mechanism and the Government agreed to it. That is what I am talking about; transparency in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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