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    "content": "roads every five years using billions of shillings. When the railway line was built 100 years ago, there is very little maintenance on it. In fact, the steamers that used to move between Kisumu, Mwanza and Port Belly in Uganda were cheap. There is no pothole to be repaired in the lake. So, it is cheap to run a ship across Lake Victoria and make more money for this country than to insist that we must use trailers on the roads. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, one of the experts that we called to our Committee was very bold and said that there is a cartel in this country that makes sure that this country does not grow. They do not want us to build the railway line, they do not want us to exploit geothermal energy, they do not want us to exploit coal energy and so on. In fact, if they hear you talk about nuclear energy, they will make a lot of noise. I was in South Korea recently and we found it being used very safely to the benefit of that country and we can also do the same. This country needs to move and it can only move if we believe that we want to build our country. The railway line was built for investors then, who were the wazungus, and for it to pay for itself, it had to pass through areas which could support agriculture which was then the investment. Nairobi developed because of that railway line but now it is no longer working but at least we are exploiting our roads. There was development ten kilometres on both sides of the railway line. I do not know whether much development has been done in Kitale. Most of the time, it was ten kilometres that developed and we have left it that way and it will continue that way unless we deliberately move out of that cycle. That is why we brought devolution. So, to suggest that the 15 per cent or even less that was given to us to distribute--- I can see that Homa Bay is going to get about Kshs3 billion and it is going to spend more than that in paying salaries, we are going to remain with about Kshs300 million. What difference will it make whether the governor invests that money in Homa Bay or not? The two things we must deal with are infrastructure and secondly give money to Busia and Homa Bay counties. I think Moyale needs more money than us because I have been there."
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