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Why I hold the Gauge Railway Development Personal

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I was almost born in a Train. Yes you read it right...I Josiah Adiema Adiema was almost born in train during a journey my mother and my older siblings took from Kisumu on 28th February 1981, arrived in Nairobi in the morning of 1st March 1981 and that same evening took another train to Mombasa. Along the way to Mombasa, labour pangs confronted her but being the strong woman she is, my mother Peninah endured to arrive in Mombasa and delivered me in a hospital on the morning of 2nd March 1981.  Explanation as to how I was almost born is definitely not my intent but the Standard Gauge Railway . I had an encounter with the railway journey again in December 24th 2007; interestingly making a return journey to the Lakeside Town (I had of coz traveled out of Mombasa since my birth). This journey by rail was because I did not get a vehicle to Kisumu yet I wanted to be part of the 2007 elections that eventually tainted the image of Kenya. The Standard Gauge Railway An example of a ...