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When British authorities completed the construction of the Uganda Railway, or the "Lunatic Express" in 1903, they had to find ways of paying back taxpayers' money amounting to PS5.3 million, funds deemed to have been unwisely invested.
The local population was judged as too laid-back to be of any economic use except as a source of cheap labour. The only viable option was to bring in white settlers with agricultural knowledge.
The British had toyed with the idea of establishing a Zionist State in East Africa for persecuted European Jews. The mission came a cropper when the initial party of Jewish prospectors declined the offer to settle in present-day Uasin Gishu, partly due to hostile reception from the locals.
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