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    "content": "we would be talking about different transport avenues within the coast. We have not invested in that. We have not also invested in modern berth where large ships would dock and we collect revenue from them. We are talking about a high wage bill because we have not managed operations and maintenance. Our country has a trend of carrying out maintenance even on newly done projects under the guise of “maintenance.” We would wish to see the oil refineries of this country being redone, not being maintained or renovated. We want a new refinery that will see this country move on to the next level. We are competing with Ethiopia which is doing very well because it has divorced development from politics. Our challenge is that we, as Kenyans, first, must invest and then we start politicking about development matters. We get carried away by our positions and our political parties until we forget that we are putting the country into a very dangerous position. We are now about to lose money from donors. This is a House of wisdom and the politics played in the Lower House should not be played in the Senate. We are not saying that we should not condemn. We should condemn and push on with our development agenda. If counties are the ones that will benefit, let us help them do so through the national Government. The more we play politics, the more we scare away investors. Today, we need to ask ourselves where the laptop project is heading to. When we look at the companies fighting, that shows that our children will suffer and we might not get value for our money. That company is now heading to court. Trust me, because of what our courts have become, they will be paid. What will happen next? Where is the interest of the people? We know that the railway project had issues. The Jubilee Government found the project going on. The Government stood firm and said even though it had issues, for the sake of this country, we should make it move on. We must build the standard gauge railway line to spur development in this country. I know we will fight in court with the owners of the tankers. Once the construction of the said railway is completed, they will be out of business. This is not just a simple issue. We will move on to court 100 times until we complete the railway line. We will also get to another point where we will be told that the railway cannot pass through Tsavo National Park. That is why we must look at very many components as we ask ourselves whether we really need to take all these cases to court or we can dialogue and agree and move on. I will give the last example as I finish. When we were doing the Southern by pass road which we think will help the trucks not to enter town, the contractors had to stay one year dialoguing with the Kenya Wild Service (KWS) for the 30 metres they had carved from the park. They ended up paying quite a good sum of money to the KWS. Now, if the investor has to go through that and yet everything is ours, I think we should ask ourselves whether we really need to take investors through this process because they could relocate to Tanzania and the other countries. I beg to support."
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