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    "content": "school and we wrote economic papers on it. This was the first time in the history of this world that a country like Kenya was building a pipeline to transport oil. We wanted to build a pipeline to transport oil and yet we did not have it. He went on to say that at least we should have built a pipeline for water because it would have made much more sense. It was a popular argument at that time. The others argued that it was going to remove tankers from business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, 25 to 35 years later, the tankers are not off the road. In fact, they are more in number than they were then. At that time, they were arguing that the pipeline would make the tankers on the railway line unusable because then they would take the job that the tankers are doing of moving crude oil by tanks on the railway line. Now, the pipeline that we built has made money for this country. It has made the movement of fuel efficient. In fact, without it, I do not think we can cope with the transportation of oil that we need upcountry and even across the borders. It is now old and we must think of building a second pipeline. Sen. Murungi was for building a second pipeline when he was a Minister and tried to repair this old one and make it a bit more efficient. We have all agreed that it is now too old and too small to cope with the work that it was designed for. Therefore, we need to build a new pipeline. Kenya as it is, you can talk of something for 20 years, and every time you try to do anything about it, you will be reminded of corruption. And because you are afraid of being taken to jail you throw it there and it waits for the new Managing Director (MD). A bold one would try it and go home. Another on starts, but he will never move. Ethiopia moves those kilometres of roads and railway line because it is a dictatorship. Sometimes I wish ours was a dictatorship regime whereby we could say we are building a railway line and move on without questions so long as it will meet internationally accepted standards. When the Chinese Government decides to build a dam at a particular place, they do so and there is no argument about it. What Chinese people do is to simply wait to see the dam. When they say that they are building a city, you will see a city in two years. When you talk about Kenya doing the Southern bypass, my brother here, Sen. Obure and so many others when they were Ministers, tried to do it, but the Government was taken to court by lovers of wildlife who do not want us to use just a portion of the KWS land and decongest Nairobi. In Kenya, people go to court for anything. Our courts seem to listen to anybody and give injunctions for anything. We should bring a substantive Motion here to discuss the courts because we are allowed to discuss them. We should tell them that they are destroying Kenya. Nothing moves on in this country because of court injunctions. We have injunctions on injunctions, an appeal on injunctions and another appeal in the Supreme Court. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me come back to the Port of Mombasa. Before you reach the Port of Mombasa like Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o was saying, you pass through the road from the airport to the City. Really, that road is not even 10 kilometres long, but it should be a dual carriageway. Each side should have four lanes. This is something we can do and it helps Kenya more than all these other roads we are building. It is not that those other roads are useless, but at least, this is the second largest city. It is the port city and the gateway to Kenya. You will get stuck between the airport and the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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