Wheels come off SGR dream as Sh35 billion loan comes due

“It is not uncommon for a country to create a railway, but it is uncommon for a railway to create a country.”

These words of British colonial administrator Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot on East Africa’s first railway line, the Lunatic Express, will perhaps appear alongside Eliud Kipchoge’s feat of completing a marathon in less than two hours in the annals of Kenya’s history.