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    "content": "I was the Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs when we were negotiating on Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSET) to have a railway line from Lamu to Moyale and Moyale to Addis. Show me the different definitions of standard gauge whether it is a higher, middle of lower standard gauge. Standard gauge railway line is a standard gauge railway line. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Ethiopia has constructed a SGR line from Djibouti to Addis Ababa at a cost of slightly under US$3 million. We have constructed from Mombasa to Nairobi at a cost of US$8.5 million per kilometre. You do not need rocket science to know that this is wrong. You can protect and justify because you are seated in a seat of confidence or a seat of largess. However, you and I, our children and grandchildren will pay for this money. It is as simple as that. The amount of money – you are a distinguished Engineer you know this – we have put on the SGR line from Mombasa to Nairobi would have done a SGR line from Mombasa to Malaba. We are now coming up with an even more bizarre arrangement to extend the SGR line and stop in Naivasha. Honestly, I have no problem with Naivasha. However, the products of Naivasha do not need a railway line to carry flowers. We can take money and build an international runway in Naivasha for planes carrying flowers to Amsterdam and Dubai; not even to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), but to take off from Naivasha straight to Amsterdam and Dubai. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what we are doing is to, in a crafty and malicious manner, destroy the economy of Mombasa – I do not know if Gov. Joho has anything do to with this – by making sure all Container Freight Stations (CFSs), all godowns and clearing and forwarding companies move out of Mombasa. What will be left of Mombasa? Docking and taking out containers on to the railway straight to Naivasha. We have not even asked in whose real estate the dry port in Naivasha is going to be built. Again, we do not need rocket science to know. This is wrong. It is unconstitutional and immoral to use your public office for personal enrichment or to enrich your family, cohorts or people hanging around you. This gentleman Sen. G. G. Kariuki, his son is my Architect. You cannot tell he is a son of man who was a strong and powerful Minister for Security during the President Moi days. He has struggled his way as a professional to be what he is because he was a man who observed public morality. Today, children of rich people are behaving in a manner that I cannot even describe. They do not work or do anything and the only language they tell you is they make money – deals. “ Iko ka deal hapa.” That is what they talk about everywhere. What country are we building?"
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