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    "content": "highway from Mombasa to Uganda through Kisumu, Malaba, Busia and beyond – being constructed from this new wealth. This is to the extent that if you have a dual carriageway from Mombasa to Kampala, I have no doubt that it will spur a near 20 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in a year. Fix our railways, Madam Temporary Speaker, but not in the manner we are going about it and getting excited; that for everything, we must run to borrow from China. Kenyans must know that the railway alone, with the fraud that has come with it; a project that was meant to cost Kshs200 billion is now costing Kshs427 billion and, shockingly, a Committee of Parliament says that is right. That alone – I have talked to top economists – Kenyans, born and unborn, will pay for that debt for 44 years to come. So, even my friend, the distinguished Senator for Mombasa, who just celebrated his first born recently; even your daughter will have a child that will pay for the fraud being committed on the standard gauge railway. It is a terrible shame for the country! This new wealth we are talking about should be segregated so that we can have a superhighway running to Ethiopia, another one to Southern Sudan; a superhighway running from Vanga to Kipini to open up the Coast for more tourism; a superhighway running from Nairobi to Isebania; a superhighway in every direction to open up the country with attendant maintenance and proper use. This will spur growth of the economy in a manner that we shall all be happy about. Madam Temporary Speaker, this morning, I was embarrassed to read in the newspapers that the Treasury Secretary is now going to float another sovereign bond in Asia and the Arab world. What the Jubilee regime is doing is mortgaging the country. These so-called sovereign bonds are not gifts; we are pre-selling our opportunities and if you float a sovereign bond of billions, which you get and as soon as it lands here, half of it is corruptly appropriated by individuals in high places. The other half does things that we do not even see, like the oldest new road in Machakos; where you have a road that is built in three months and before any car uses it, it is worn out. Madam Temporary Speaker, sometimes you cannot help admiring China. In China, the people who commit economic crimes are punished severely for it. If you are a shopkeeper and you are a hoarder, they come and try you at your shop, convict you and hang you. The rope that hangs you is paid for by your family. If you are executed by a bullet, that bullet is paid for by your family."
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