Expressway: Kenyans to pay for road they’ll be taxed to use

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It is a double pain for taxpayers who will pay billions of shillings upfront to relocate utilities on the 27-kilometre Nairobi Expressway and also pay toll fees to use the double-decker highway when it is completed.

In the mini budget before parliament, the National Treasury has allocated Sh5.4 billion for the Nairobi Expressway project being built by a subsidiary of China Road and Bridge Construction (CRBC), the company that build the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).
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The Chinese firm is expected to earn an estimated Sh106.8 billion in profits for the 27 years that it will own and operate the double-decker road.

This is crazy, the Chinese are eating this country alive, they are taking all the valuable stuff, from wildlife, donkeys, trees, avocadoes on the cheap, to our hard earned foreign exchange all in return for toxic and substandard products that are bankrupting local industries and overpriced infrastructure of questionable utility. We love getting shafted it seems, we seem to relish giving away our sovereignty, money and dignity for a pittance. 

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The million-dollar trade in trafficked rosewood trees

The Rosewood tree is one of the most trafficked species on earth. When it's cut it bleeds a blood red sap. Having exhausted stocks elsewhere, Chinese traders have turned to West Africa. BBC Africa Eye are in Senegal where it is illegal to fell or export a Rosewood tree. And yet, we can reveal they are been logged and smuggled at an alarming rate. From the forests of Casamance, through the port of neighbouring Gambia and all the way onto China. For a year BBC Africa Eye with Umaru Fofana has been investigating the million-dollar trade in trafficked rosewood.