{"id":941478,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/941478/?format=json","text_counter":394,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wetangula","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"concessional funding, China – with its largest economy today on the globe – has given us only Kshs1 billion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you see what countries like the Federal Republic of Germany has given us in terms of concessional loans – Kshs29 billion – and we have no commercial loans from Germany. Therefore, between China and Germany, who is our friend? We want to open up, go and borrow more from China; extend the railway line to somewhere; and extend I do not know what to somewhere. This is killing our country. We must face the facts. We are not opposing anybody; I want this country to move forward. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Sen. Nyamunga spoke passionately, but the anticlimax came when she said ‘yes.’ She asked the Acting Cabinet Secretary: “Can you explain how projects in this country are costed?” This is a very pertinent question. Sen. Orengo and I sat in the former President Kibaki Cabinet. The road from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Westlands was approved by President Kibaki’s Cabinet at a cost of Kshs23 billion. Sen. Mugo was this us. Even if there was super inflation in Kenya, which there is not, I saw the other day---"}