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"content": "from Tetu, but if you ever risk to board those trains, please, do not get into a mess because, again, we were trying to do public relations. No improvement has ever been done to our railways since Independence. Not one inch of railway has been increased since Independence! The colonialists constructed, in four years, all the railway network that you see today. We always say that we are an independent State! The problem is graft and wastage of public resources. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our airports--- Kisumu Airport, sometimes, when it rains, you cannot land because, basically, the problem is equipment and the weather. Sometimes, there is no power and you cannot manage. We are yet to see improvements. We provided Kshs8 billion to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. I am yet to see, not that I must see, anyway, but we need to feel the expenditure of Kshs8 billion on our airport! Watch this space! Those who are handling those public coffers will have to account for that Kshs8 billion! It does not matter when, but that accounting must be done! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am talking about the ferry services. Some of us who cannot swim, when we are in Mombasa, we are terrified! Sometimes back, when that ferry almost stalled, we almost wanted to say our last prayers! Our ferry system--- I have said here in this Budget, they have increased the Recurrent Expenditure by Kshs300 million to provide for the services in the ferry system. I thought the great Minister here could have provided some money to buy modern ferries to serve our people well in Coast Province, and give comfort to some of us who are local tourists, and who fear or dread crossing that ferry, because some of us are land animals and we cannot swim! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently, the Minister talked about removing the vehicles that have four axles from our roads. He knows that three-quarters of the trucks in this country have got four axles. Unless they have got a new contract to supply three-axle trucks, the Minister needs to tell this country why they have decided all of a sudden to have rapid change of the axle load on our roads. That is why I want to encourage this Minister to be more proactive, ask for more money and account for it wisely, because I know he will be able to do it. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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