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    "content": "when money is paid. Imagine a situation where with a rich hinterland Mombasa was visited as a free port by just about ten per cent of the 300 million that it serves. If 30 million people visit Mombasa for business in a year, and each of those visitors is spending just US$1,000, that is US$30 billion, and remember our GDP is only US$40 billion. That is almost equal to doubling our GDP from one indicator only – the Port of Mombasa. It can be done. It does not need rocket science. All that it needs is courageous managers of this country. Instead of engaging in diversionary issues like cutting wages in the wrong way, those are things that we should be focusing on. You want to reduce your salary by 20 per cent, but doing nothing to improve efficiency, reduce wastage and cut down on corruption and all the issues that will help you save public funds. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have such a flawed tendering system in this country that a bottle of water like this one, if you go to the supermarket maybe Kshs50, but in a Government office, because of tenders, we may be acquiring it for Kshs100 – double the cost. These are the things that the Jubilee regime should be looking at and not boring Kenyans about cutting wages, which they know that nobody will accept and is against the International Labour law."
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