If SGR is so important why can’t Kenyans and Ugandans pay for it?

Kenya SGR

A railway photo illustration.  PHOTO | NMG

Government officials of the two strongly connected, but deeply indebted, republics of Kenya and Uganda are criss-crossing the globe looking for another debt of $6 billion. It is for building a railway to connect South Sudan, DR Congo and Rwanda through the two to Mombasa port.

But are their 100 million citizens (53 million Kenyans and 47 million Ugandans) expected to fast and pray that another $6 billion gets added to the foreign debt yoke of $60 billion?