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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the IDPs will put a smile on their faces again now that they can re-build their small businesses, build their homes again and defeat those enemies of development, who were trying to ruin the lives of those other Kenyans who were working hard to maintain their lives, wherever they were. This is an important step towards restoring the citizensâ faith in the ability of the Government to provide. This is very laudable. I know that if this particular Minister was not there, not many others who would have put any money there. You could see others allocating Kshs10,000 or Kshs25,000. What is Kshs10,000 or Kshs25,000 for somebody whose home has been burned down? Somebody has been maimed and then you give him Kshs10,000 or Kshs25,000. You are joking! Therefore, this is a very important step that has been taken by the Minister. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another key issue that I think is very important, and which we have been talking about year in, year out, is our railway system, which is our life line. Right now, Tanzanians are improving their railway line. They are connecting it to Burundi. If we sit down and just talk about the railways, soon, the business that comes to Kenya from the rest of the East Africa countries of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and DRC Congo, will be re-routed to Tanzania. We will slowly continue losing the business that we make, of Kshs42 billion annually, from Uganda and the rest of those countries, if we do not take this important step of improving our infrastructure and specifically, the railway line, to be able to transport bulk goods at affordable costs and at good speed. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, again, took a bold step to put some money in the transport sector. Former Ministers for Finance were talking about donors, getting loans, and what not. The current Minister for Finance has put some money into that sector. He also went ahead to deal with a big problem that is affecting Nairobi, which is the engine of our economy. If we do not deal with the transport problems of Nairobi, from where the bulk of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is generated, we will not be doing much. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has, again, provided money for light railway that will unlock the gridlock of transport that is always a problem for all Nairobians, who spend hours on the road burning fuel, wasting property, not working and destroying the economy because we are not able to move from work to home and back to work the next day in the shortest time possible. These are laudable initiatives that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has initiated. There also many other initiatives in the Budget that I cannot be able to talk about for now. Of course, as we always say, the devil is in the detail and in the implementation. If we are borrowing all that money to finance spending, if we are not very careful about how we collect our money, then we will be in trouble."
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